At breakfast one morning, Anna discovers magic in her bowl of alphabet cereal. The letters in her spoon can be arranged to form several different words. She's a word wizard! Wielding her magic spoon, Anna helps a lost little boy named Zack find his way home-turning a wave-tossed ocean into a canoe and producing a horse once they reach the shore. Accompanied by Cathryn Falwell's ingenious collage pictures, this lively adventure is an enticing introduction to a creative form of wordplay. A concluding note encourages children to become word wizards by collecting letters and words from newspapers and magazines to form their own anagrams.
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Ages 5^-8. In this original picture book, Anna's eating a bowl of alphabet cereal when she discovers that the letters in her spoon can rearrange themselves to spell two different words. Anna becomes a "word wizard," making the changes happen at will. When she finds a little lost boy, she adds an m and turns his tears into a stream. When the stream flows into the ocean, she rearranges the letters to make a canoe. After a series of adventures, she takes the boy home, where she arms him against further catastrophes by turning the toy sword he carries into words. In an afterword, Falwell explains that Anna is making anagrams, and she encourages readers to play around with the idea by using magnetic letters, alphabet blocks, or pasta, or homemade letters from a variety of suggested materials. Brightly colored and full of action, the cut-paper collage illustrations make this an eye-catching introduction to anagrams. A book with great potential for the classroom. Carolyn Phelan
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Brightly colored and full of action, the cut-paper collage illustrations make this an eye-catching introduction to anagrams. A book with great potential for the classroom. (BOOKLIST) -- From the Publisher
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This book is a great introduction to anagrams and creative word play. Follow up with a set of letter cards or alphabet magnets and kids will have a great time creating their own! WORD WIZARD was listed as a Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts by the National Council of Language Arts Teachers for 1999.
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I agree with both "A Reader" and Booklist - this is a great introduction to wordplay AND a valuable classroom asset.
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- Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers: Real Space and Virtual Links by Toni Buzzeo on page 50, page 160, and Back Matter
- Let's Read: A Complete Month-by-Month Activities Program for Beginning Readers by Elizabeth Crosby Stull on page 202, and page 336
- Best-Ever Activities For Grades 2-3: Vocabulary by Jacqueline Clark on page 24
- Making the Grade: Everything Your Kindergartener Needs to Know by Daniel A. Van Beek on page 18
- Los Dibujos de David (Spanish Edition) by Cathryn Falwell in Front Matter
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