| #6166064 in Books | 1958 | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 57 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A gundulum of garbage cans!|By Sherry Thomas|l first came across this treasure while shelving books as a library page in the public library when I was a teen. Intrigued, I checked it out and was delighted with the creativity of the author. I still remember his list of collective nouns including "a gundulum of garbage cans", a phrase that has stayed with me over the decades.|||"I want every children's book editor and also every primary and middle school teacher and librarian in America to read this book. It is the antidote to plotting, plot-driven, two-line synopsizable, anti-imagination books....[Ounce Dice Trice] ca
What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong wa...
You easily download any file type for your device.Ounce, dice, trice | Alastair Reid.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
