Author(s): Alastair Reid,Ben Shahn
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 56
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2009-11-04
Dimensions: 190.5 x 246.38 x 12.7mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Main
Illustrations: black & white illustrations

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 way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn's glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.