Word Wizard
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 anmand turns histearsinto astream. When the stream flows into theocean, she rearranges the letters to make acanoe. After a series of adventures, she takes the boy home, where she arms him against further catastrophes by turning the toyswordhe carries intowords. 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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.