A vintage 1960s edition of Pop-Up Sound Alikes, a Hilarious Collection of Homonyms, teaches kids some of the most challenging words in English.
Designed and produced in cooperation with Random House by Graphics International, Inc, New York.
Homonyms are words that are spelled or pronounced the same but have different meanings, making them among the most challenging words in the English language.
"The beaver gnaws his life away:
He gnaws all night, he gnaws all day.
But would that beaver always gnaw
If he ever SAW a SAW."
"Two shooters shoot at ducks of tin
To see how many dolls they'll win.
Now, at last, their shooting's through,
And ONE WON ONE and ONE WON two!"
This fun and clever, and complete, intact, vintage pop-up book has withstood the test of time. Other homonyms are one/cent/sent/scent, knight/night, bare/bear/bear, two/too, flew/floo, blew/blue, sale/sail, write/right, but/butt (as in getting butted by a goat), fare/fair/fair, fowl/foul, and ate/eight.
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