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With characteristic glee, oxymoron and palindrome fiend Agee (Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?; Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!) here presents a set of anagrams--some of them borrowed from other wordplay enthusiasts. In this latest effort to unravel and reconstitute language, he demonstrates how letters can be rearranged to produce new meanings and pumps up the humor with pen-and-ink cartoons. Four sequential opening pages follow a fellow with a recognizable pompadour and polyester suit as he emerges from a manhole, proceeds to a billboard reading "Elvis" and shuffles the word to spell "Lives." (He reappears on the closing page, posing on a billboard for "Levi's.") In the single-page images that follow, "astronomer" converts to "moonstarer," and a pig pronounces a "dormitory" chamber a "dirty room." A spread of serpentine freeways that would inspire claustrophobia in Mario Andretti accompanies "Southern California" as "hot sun, or life in a car." In each case, Agee wittily unifies the dual results with his illustrations. For sophisticates, a sketch of an artist's studio shows "Piet Mondrian" pausing in his work to say, "I paint modern." And for fans who've noted the artist's penchant for depicting inmates, he offers a double entendre with a picture of prisoners painting vertical lines in their cell: "Stripes/persist." Agee--who must be one heck of a Scrabble player by now--creates a sketchbook of sorts that exposes words' hidden secrets. Ages 6-up. (Apr.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
Book Description
A Clever Cartoonist Explores The Rearrangement Of Letters.
Jon Agee, a picture-book author and illustrator whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, is not new to wordplay. Three previous collections of palindromes bear his name, so it was only a matter of time before he departed from merely reading words backward and forward. Now he has taken words and phrases and tossed their letters in the air, and when they land, their new formations are often uncannily related to the originals--or at least they are after Agee is done with them. From the simple (Poetry/Try Poe) to the slightly more complex (Halitosis/Lois Has It) to the sublimely ridiculous (The Best Things In Life Are Free/Nail-Biting Refreshes The Feet), Agee manages to make perfect sense out of these anagrams and more than sixty others by pairing them with his deftly funny pictures. Like all truly great cartoons, his are ones that demand frequent visits and laughter.
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Funny, clever
2000/6/27
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Agee rearranges the letters in these words and phrases with funny results. For example:
elvis = lives
nudist colony = no untidy clothes
alien forms = life on mars
committees = cost me time
eleven plus two = twelve plus one
In writing they are clever, but with his illustrations they are hilarious.
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