Clever, although I'm not sure I liked the not-so-subtle advertisement for the author's book Little Pea at the end.

"Wordles are groups of words that sound exactly the same but mean different things." A fun wordplay book for older kids, with goofy illustrations. ( )

This is a clever book. I wasn't sure if my almost 5 year old would get it, but he did and he really enjoyed trying to guess the wordles: I scream, ice cream. Reindeer, rain dear. I see, icy. Of course, most of the combinations are pretty ridiculous. My son's favorite was: Princess cape, prince escape. Especially since that princess really had him worried, "she's mean" he said. And the yarn incorporated into the illustration was pretty cool.

So, even if it's not a very long, or dense book, it's pretty successful, getting kids to think about words, the way they're spelled and how they sound. And it's fun. I rather liked the design of the book and the mixed media in the illustrations, although most of the drawings left me cold. And I didn't like their sneaking a book ad into the last page spread, as I'm a little touchy about directing ads at kids. I think it's quite enough to have something in that vein on the back cover of a book ... ( )

Remember Steig's CDB? This wordle books is as much fun, but you're probably going to have to say the outloud to get it. This is a good group actvitiy. ( )