Ounce Dice Trice
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2009
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590173201 |
| Author: | Alastair Reid |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Children's |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 195mm x 260mm |
| Series: | New York Review Children's Collection |
| Audience Age: | 5-9 |
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Critics Review
Enough curiosities here to tantalise even the most hardened gongoozler. London Review of Books This mad exporation of words is weirdly addictive and Ben Shahn’s etchings make it even more appealing. Junior
Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid
Poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. Reid was on the staff of The New Yorker from 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. His children’s books include A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008, he published two career-spanning collections: Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.
Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Painter, muralist, print-maker, and illustrator. Shahn was best known for his socially and politically informed artwork, including a series of paintings depicting the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. His 1956 Charles Eliot Norton lectures were published as The Shape of Content, and he illustrated numerous books of poetry. Ounce Dice Trice is the only book he illustrated that was written specifically for children.
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