Telling Tails: Fun with Homonyms

by Laura Hambleton, Sedat Turhan

Overview

This humorous, imaginative look at homonyms—words that sound the same but have different meanings—invites children to have fun with words that can be tricky to say, spell, and understand. Vibrant illustrations and witty text point out the absurd possibilities in selecting the wrong homonyms, such as a cake that needs flower instead of flour, or a person who is feeling a little horse today. A reference at the end of the book helps children solidify the difference between sets of words that sound exactly alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840594980
Publisher:	Milet Publishing,Ltd.
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Series:	Milet Wordwise series
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Laura Hambleton is the author and illustrator of I'm Afraid Too!, Welcome to the Lizard Lounge, Chameleon Swims, and Chameleon Races, the coauthor of Monkey Business and Strawberry Bullfrog, and the illustrator of How Bees Be, English with Abby and Zak, French with Abby and Zak, and Ece ve Efe ile Türkçe. Sedat Turhan is the creator of the Milet Picture Dictionary, Milet Mini Picture Dictionary, and the Milet Flashwords series and is the founding director of Milet. He lives in Chicago.

Editorial Reviews

Homonyms are explained with text and creative illustrations.

Toy Tips Magazine

A springboard to imaginative drawings of our own...useful for all children fascinated by English language and its silly sayings.

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

A funny and imaginative look at homonyms. . . the richly textured artwork encourages children to discover what the homonyms actually mean.

Learning Magazine

K-Gr 2 - With offbeat collages and paintings coupled with oversize fonts and simple layouts, these offerings introduce parts of speech. The images in the first title are somewhat more abstract than those in the two other books. For example, the illustration for "We don't have a plan. We'll play it by ear" depicts a car traversing a road shaped like a face. The clearer (though smaller) pictures in Catherine Snodgrass's Super Silly Sayings That Are over Your Head(Starfish, 2004) may make that title a preferred alternative to this one. Bullfroginquires whether a "watchdog" is a "a dog with a watch" and shows a hound wearing a clock around his neck. In Tails, the phrase "I'm washing my hare" is coupled with an illustration of a smiling child cleansing a puzzled-looking rabbit in a bathtub. The humor here is similar to that in Fred Gwynne's A Little Pigeon Toad(S & S, 1988), but the sentence choices and artwork have more appeal for young children. Each book closes with a succinct definition of the part of speech under examination and clearly explains the examples in the previous pages. Solid additions.-Jayne Damron, Farmington Community Library, MI

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