l first came across this treasure while shelving books as a library page in the public library when I was a teen. Intrigued, I checked it out and was delighted with the creativity of the author. I still remember his list of collective nouns including "a gundulum of garbage cans", a phrase that has stayed with me over the decades. A scribbitch of papers, a snigglement of string, a snuttering of monkeys. Counting from one to ten: archery, butchery, treachery...oh boy, don't get me started.
Now that I have a little grandson, I jumped at the chance to secure a copy of this classic for him when he is old enough to enjoy it. So glad I was reminded of the existence of this book, lo these many years later!
By the way, I think the talented artist/illustrator of this book, Ben Shahn, created a whimsical painting of my favorite composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. I believe it was featured as a cover on Time magazine. I loved that illustration and saved it for many years but have since lost track of it. I wish I could see that painting again. :)
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"Alastair Reid is a word magician."
— Bill Buford
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"Ounce Dice Trice, an Alastair Reid book of poems for juveniles, introduces children to the fun of words. Introducing children to words in any form is, to my mind, one of the noblest of endeavors. Alastair himself has had great fun with words, both poetically and prosaically." — Los Angeles Times |
"The book, with more than 100 pictures by Ben Shahn, was designed to amuse and the words belong on the borderline where “the poet and the child meet.”" — The New York Times |
"I want every children’s book editor and also every primary and middle school teacher and librarian in America to read this book. It is the antidote to plotting, plot-driven, two-line synopsizable, anti-imagination books....[Ounce Dice Trice] can be read cover to cover, back to front, middle to end, upside down, any way you like." — Daniel Pinkwater, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR |
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Vivi Figueira
Um livro diferente e excelente!
Reviewed in Brazil on May 2, 2019
Vivi Figueira
Reviewed in Brazil on May 2, 2019
As extraordinárias ilustrações são do artista Ben Shahn, motivo pelo qual comprei este livro infantil. E fiquei muito satisfeita, tanto com as ilustrações quanto com esta ideia de se fazer um livro de palavras, bastante criativo e diferente.
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Peter
nonsense has a place in anyones life!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2018
