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Are you as clever as a fox? Or perhaps youre as sharp as any spike? If so, this book will be a piece of cake! Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and humorous illustrations from Brian Gable present similes and metaphors. When it comes to grammar, this team is not as slow as thick molasses. Oh no, theyre as bright as polished pennies! Each simile and metaphor is printed in color for easy identification in this gem of a book. Read it aloud and share in the delight of the senseand nonsenseof words.
Ages 7-11
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eISBN: 978-0-7613-5742-1
the Words Are CATegorical, Math Is CATegorical, Adventures in Memory, and Sounds Like Reading series. He has also written The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor, Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book, and two poetry books. Mr. Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Words Are CATegorical books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical series. Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children.
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DIVISION OF
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Dont Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What Is a Synonym? Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More about Adjectives Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What Are Similes and Metaphors? Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More about Verbs Stop and Go, Yes and No: What Is an Antonym? Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy: More about Antonyms Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More about Synonyms To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb? Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition?
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