- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Tundra Books (Jan 10 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0887767397
- ISBN-13: 978-0887767395
- Product Dimensions: 26.3 x 1 x 21.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#608,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #65 in Books > Children's Books > Arts & Music > Photography
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From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2–Photographs carry the meaning of the text in this book that emphasizes common homophones and homonyms. If horns played cool music, for example, is illustrated with a full-page colorful image of a ram against a grassy green background and a picture of a brass quintet in bright red uniforms. While the text is dependent on the images, some are clumsily staged. If nails were on fingers is illustrated with an image of a cluster of nails opposite a photo of an awkwardly posed hand with artificial fingernails. An additional purchase for language-arts units.–Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OH
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
K-Gr. 3. A marvelously imaginative pairing (sorry) of homonyms (words that sound alike but have different meanings and the same spelling) and homophones (words that sound alike but have different meanings and different spellings), wrapped up in a rhyme of amazingly few words and terrific offbeat photographs. "If a pitcher / could pour" reads the text on a spread showing a boy pitching a baseball to a girl batter opposite a photograph of a perfectly luscious blue china water pitcher. "And glasses / could see" is illustrated by photos of clear glass and colored plastic tumblers opposite a rosy rag doll wearing shades. "If the sun / could laugh" pairs a sunset with a giggling, bouncing baby boy, and the "blew" of blowing out birthday candles is matched with a perfect expanse of cloudless blue sky. Accomplished author and photographer Alda is married to the actor Alan Alda and impishly notes on the back cover copy that "they have been a pair for many years." GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Kids learn about the double meaning of words and enjoy a format which is fun to think about, Jun 12 2006
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Did You Say Pears? (Hardcover)
Very early picturebook readers will relish large, page-sized color photos paired with simple one-line statements and a zany outlook inviting kids to think about words. From animal 'pants' to trunks, pitchers, glasses and more, kids learn about the double meaning of words and enjoy a format which is fun to think about. Even parents will find it thought-provoking and filled with insights into language's oddities.
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Really neat book, Dec 13 2007
By Chuckela "chuckela" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Did You Say Pears? (Hardcover)
When my precocious kindergartner and I (being quite the opposite myself) seemed continually to be reminding ourselves about the difference between homonyms and homophones, I happened upon this book. It's a really neat book. It's great fun because of the simple pictures and homophones (and homonyms of course), and it helped with spelling, understanding, and anticipating homophones/grams/nyms or whatever they are called these days.
I've given this book as a gift to K/1st-graders often.
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