Did You Say Pears?

by Arlene Alda

Book Overview

"If horns played cool music, and pants were just clothes...."

Horn, pants, nails, trunk, pitcher -- all words that can mean more than one thing. Arlene Alda has put together words and images in a delightful and witty book of photographs as inviting as a pair of juicy pears. Did You Say Pears? takes a playful and very clever look at words that sound the same but have different meanings. Young readers will love to hone their budding sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177049278X
• ISBN13: 9781770492783
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.8" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Really neat book

When my precocious kindergartner and I (being quite the opposite myself) seemed continually to be reminding ourselves about the difference between homonyms and homophones, I happened upon this book. It's a really neat book. It's great fun because of the simple pictures and homophones (and homonyms of course), and it helped with spelling, understanding, and anticipating homophones/grams/nyms or whatever they are called these days. I've given this book as a gift to K/1st-graders often.

Kids learn about the double meaning of words and enjoy a format which is fun to think about

Very early picturebook readers will relish large, page-sized color photos paired with simple one-line statements and a zany outlook inviting kids to think about words. From animal 'pants' to trunks, pitchers, glasses and more, kids learn about the double meaning of words and enjoy a format which is fun to think about. Even parents will find it thought-provoking and filled with insights into language's oddities.