Madam and Nun and 1001: What Is a Palindrome?

by Brian P. Cleary Narrated by Intuitive

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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"A provocation to wordplay." —Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

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)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170077861
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	Words Are Categorical Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

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