The Weighty Word Book
CRITICS HAVE SAID
- “It’s a creative and humorous approach to vocabulary building, and a natural lead in to having students create their own tall tales with multisyllabic conclusions.” – School Library Journal
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- Amato, Mary. The Word Eater. Holiday House, 2000.
- Babbitt, Natalie. The Search for Delicious. Farrar, 1985.
- Clements, Andrew. Frindle. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
- Frasier, Debra. Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster. Harcourt, 2000.
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Say What? Simon & Schuster, 2004.
- Hepworth, Cathi. Antics!: An Alphabetical Anthology. Putnam, 1992.
- Hepworth, Cathi. Bug Off!: A Swarm of Insect Words. Putnam, 1998.
- Hirsch, Robin. FEG: Ridiculous Poems for Intelligent Children. Little, Brown, 2002.
- Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth. Random House, 1961.
- MacDonald, Amy. No More Nice. Orchard, 1996.
- Steig, William. CDB. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- Viorst, Judith. The Alphabet from Z to A: With Much Confusion on the Way. Atheneum, 1994.
- Wilbur, Richard. The Disappearing Alphabet. Harcourt, 1998.
- Wilbur, Richard. The Pig in the Spigot. Harcourt, 2000.