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Paul, Ann Whitford

Word Builder

32 pp. | Simon | February, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-3981-8 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Kurt Cyrus. A worker hammers larger-than-life letters into words then piles them into "sentence towers," eventually crafting "paragraph villages" and "chapter cities." The construction metaphor suggests that writing gives us the power to build amazing new worlds. Cyrus's striking illustrations are technical yet fanciful and depict the building process from a variety of perspectives.
Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi

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