Words

Reviewed by: Barbara Merritt - Scarborough School District, Scarborough, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 24, 2016

Review

The author writes that his aim for this book is to "make the discovery of words equally fun and inspiring" as reading and writing. To this end, each page of the book has one of 300 of the most common words depicted in some way with thick black marker on a white background. Many of them are very clever. This is a good book for young children to look at to identify the pictures and sound out the words. It is equally fun to think about the process the author used to come up with some of the drawings. Some are stand alone, while on some pages opposites or words that are somewhat related are depicted. Some are just fun, like three birds with "OUR" piece of spaghetti going through all of their beaks. This would be a fun book to just sit and look through with a young child or with older children to talk about the author's thought processes.

Overall Book Score: good