By Brian P Cleary
What's a synonym? it is difficult to give an explanation for yet effortless to teach - and that is simply what this publication does, in rhyming, comical verse that would have readers laughing as they examine. sketch cats consultant readers in the course of the methods of phrases which are virtually, approximately an identical during this lighthearted get together of language.
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Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Brian Gable is the illustrator of several Words Are CATegoricalTM books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical™ series. Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children. A. WDearly, ords Are CATegorical books Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? TM Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? : What Are Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs A Lime, A Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, A Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun?
What Are Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More about Adverbs A Lime, A Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, A Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What Is a Synonym? Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More about Adjectives Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More about Verbs Stop and Go, Yes and No: What Is an Antonym? Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk: More about Synonyms To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb?
Bdg. : alk. paper) 1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Juvenile literature. I. Gable, Brian, 1949- ill. II. Title. 1—dc22 2007040360 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 – JR – 13 12 11 10 09 08 32 978-0-7613-4682-1 Brian P. Cleary is the author of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical™ series and the Math Is CATegorical™ series, as well as Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book, The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor, and two poetry books. He is also the author of the new Adventures in Memory series.