An Almanac of Words at Play
Title | An Almanac of Words at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Willard R. Espy |
Publisher | Clarkson Potter Publishers |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
A January to December "almanac" of verses and wordplay.
Another Almanac of Words at Play
Title | Another Almanac of Words at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Willard R. Espy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Word games |
ISBN | 9780233972886 |
A Children's Almanac of Words at Play
Title | A Children's Almanac of Words at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Richardson Espy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Children's literature, English |
ISBN | 9780340351451 |
Game of Words
Title | Game of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Espy |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-08-18 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781579123246 |
Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.
Children's Book-a-Day Almanac
Title | Children's Book-a-Day Almanac PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Silvey |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1466828048 |
Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year! This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature. Each page features an event of the day, a children's book that relates to that event, and a list of other events that took place on that day. Always informative and often surprising, celebrate a year of literature for children with The Children's Book-a-Day Almanac.
The Best of An Almanac of Words at Play
Title | The Best of An Almanac of Words at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Willard R. Espy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Lexicology |
ISBN | 9780877791454 |
Get a daily dose of wordplay all year. 366 days' worth of poems, puns, and puzzles (includes February 29 for leap years). Features anagrams, acrostics, palindromes, and pangrams. The best of Espy's two classic almanacs.
A Children's Almanac of Words at Play
Title | A Children's Almanac of Words at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Willard R. Espy |
Publisher | Clarkson Potter |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Literary recreations |
ISBN | 9780517546666 |
An assortment of writings, including limericks, riddles, puns puzzles, tongue twisters, poetry, malapropisms, palindromes, Tom Swifties, and Spoonerisms, for each day of the year.