Go outside, elsewhere, and down the rabbit hole with this hilarious introduction to compound words. Young readers will fall in love with the English language as they watch star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti put his sly spin on vocabulary. The lesson here? Even homework is fun when you let yourself play with the words.
High-design book by famed cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist.
Both educational and entertaining for young children.
Excellent vocabulary resource for children in grades K-2 learning about compound words.
Visual gags provide laugh-out-loud humor to young readers as they decode the text.
The perfect addition to language arts collections for Grades K-2.
Accompanying TOON into Reading CCSS-Aligned Lesson Plan and Activity Sheet (free download).Ivan Brunetti has published several graphic novels and taught courses on editorial illustration and comics at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. His drawings have appeared inThe New Yorker,The New York Times Magazine, andMcSweeney's, among other publications, and he served as editor for Yale University Press's two-volumeAnthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories.
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