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Stop and Go, Yes and No: What Is an Antonym? (Words Are Categorical)

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Great stuff. Interesting word choices. Those crazy cartoon cats. I love how in this series of books which explains synonyms, homonyms, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions and more, Cleary can take the complex and make it simple, funny and teachable. He's also written one of my favorite books of poetry-- RAINBOW SOUP; ADVENTURES IN POETRY.

I thought these books a bit light on content until kiddo started interrupting me when we were doing school work with "It's an, it's an, it's an ANTONYM!" He was so excited he could barely get the word out. He quotes the books and points out examples. Contrast to the Ruth Heller grammar books, which are so glitzy, kiddo misses the words. This series seems to bore right into his brain. Give it a try!

This is such a fun way to introduce parts of speech without kids needing to stress about it, they can just sit back and have fun and learn. We love reading together and the kids have really enjoyed these, even before they can really understand the English lesson being taught... We have most of this series and would purchase them again in a heartbeat! They are not a curriculum... just a wonderful fun addition to teaching :-)

Cleary's "Words are CATegorical" series aims to teach young students the parts of speech; and language devices such as simile/metaphor, and synonyms/antonyms, through humor, rhyme, creative story telling, and a zany group of animals.

The Antyonym book written by Brian Cleary and illustrated by Brian Gable, continues the lyrical instruction as successfully as ever. Importantly, kids will also learn how many antonyms are "made" by using the prefixes `un', `dis', or `im'. This bit of instruction will turn on a lot of light bulbs with that wonderful sentence of, "oh, now I get it". Great instructional book!

Color, bounce and fun are all words that describe the immediate range of perceptions accompanied with sighting this kid friendly book.

The cover grabs at you and says, "read me". Kids are going to find it hard to resist. Inside you'll find a rolling Seus-like run of fun and learning.

Yes, take it and read it to your toddlers or let those early readers have fun picking out those Little antonyms for Big fun.