The noted American poet shares hundreds of intriguing stories, legends, facts, and fallacies about the origins and histories of words and phrases in the English language

A Browser's Dictionary

Reference

CIARDI, JOHN

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Harpercollins

Tells the stories, legends, and facts behind the origins of common American expressions

A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language

Features hundreds of stories, legends, facts, and fallacies about words and phrases, their origins, and their mysteries

Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language

Words, Language & Grammar

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

‘Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings.’ —BL.

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

For instance

W.W.Norton&Company

Asimov, the scientific-literary jack-of-all-trades, and Ciardi, a serious poet with a ribald sense of humor, have collaborated on this copious collection of 288 wicked and witty limericks

A Grossery of Limericks

Humor & Entertainment

Asimov,Isaac

Humor

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

I Met a Man

A collection of verse for the young reader about strange and familiar creatures

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Explains the basic elements of poetry, and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences

How Does a Poem Mean?

WILLIAMS, MILLER

Poetry

Houghton/Mifflin

Brings together nonsense verses, poems with word plays, and riddles about an array of amusing characters entertain readers

Fast and Slow: Poems for Advanced Children and Beginning Parents

Gaver, Becky

Fast and Slow

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

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