Smart Feller Fart Smeller: And Other Spoonerisms - Hardcover

Agee, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078683692X ISBN 13: 9780786836925

Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books, 2006

Synopsis

A wordplay master takes some of the more comical examples of spoonerisms--a flip-flop of the initial sounds of a group of words--and pairs them with his equally hilarious pictures. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Agee is the author/illustrator of The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau (an ALA Notable), The Return of Freddy Legrand (an SLJ Best Book), and Dmitri the Astronaut, each chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best picture books of the year. He has also created six popular books of wordplay, among them Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! He lives in San Francisco.

From Booklist:

Gr. 2-4. "What did the trucker order for lunch?" Turn the page and find the answer: "A chilled grease sandwich." Using full-page black-and-white cartoons that play with the mixed-up words, Agee captures the fun of spoonerisms. The farce of the verbal puns is extended by pictures that caricature everyone--from the yokel who tells the cute little girl "you have such a dirty pimple" to the class genius who "burned a lunch." And of course, there's the mix-up captured in the title. A brief introduction explains what a spoonerism is, and the last page summarizes "what they said" with "what they meant to say." Kids will recognize the embarrassment of flip-flopping words as well as the fun when someone else does it. Sure to be read aloud. For more spoonerisms, suggest Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit (2005). Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 078683692X
• ISBN 13: 9780786836925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64