Madam and Nun and 1001: What Is a Palindrome?

by Brian P. Cleary, Brian Gable (Illustrator)

Overview

What is a palindrome?

Read this book forward or backward to find out! Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable pair up to wow readers with playful rhymes and eye-catching illustrations that introduce palindromes—words, phrases, or numbers that are spelled the same forward and backward. Each palindrome is printed in color for easy identification. Aha! You found one!

Madam and Nun and 1001: What Is a Palindrome? turns traditional grammar lessons on end. Read it aloud and share in the delight of the sense—and nonsense—of words.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467743365
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Words Are Categorical Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Brian P. Cleary is an American humorist, poet, and author. He is best known for his books written for grade-school children that explore grammar, math and poetry in humorous ways. In his role in the digital division of American Greetings, he's put words in the mouths of Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, William Shatner, Meghan Trainor and more. The multi-million selling author has performed poetry workshops in 500 elementary schools across the county. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Brian Gable is the illustrator of many of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical® books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical® series. Mr. Gable lives in Toronto, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

"A provocation to wordplay." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

A small bounty of palindromes, all stoked and ready to go. Cleary gives young readers a tangy, rhymed introduction to palindromes that runs the gamut from mom and dad to wow and bob, then gathers sophistication with tenet and kayak and rotavator, then gets down and dirty with saippuakivikauppias, which is, as you know, Finnish for soapstone cutter. Gable's artwork keeps the survey moving at warp speed, full of big-nosed pointy-eared pug-toed creatures, which feel a happy match with Cleary's simple verse and the palindromes. They are not always immediately apparent, especially when they are fractured. "No lemons no melon," a sign says outside the food shop. "Was it a cat I saw?" And there is a terrific five-word, up-down-and-across, crosswordlike item with words like sator, arepo and opera. There's a couple of turkeys, too, such as "bosses sob." Cleary makes the good point that fashioning palindromes with a friend can be fun, like designing a secret language. Gable adds the smart idea of using a Scrabble set to move the letters around. A provocation to wordplay. (Picture book. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews