A bonus? The authors provide wordles on the inside cover flap to describe themselves. Illustrations are funny too, and even after the wordles are figured out from a first reading, looking at the details in the drawings will provide lots of entertainment in subsequent readings. This is the kind of game that young children are usually good at, because they are not as entrenched in language and word meaning as adults are. Moms and dads could have fun guessing other possibilities with their kids before looking at the answers. I Scream, Ice Cream!: A Book of Wordles asks readers to guess about alternative meanings before turning the page to find out the wordles for “heroes” (he rows), and “I see!” (icy) plus quite a few more. (Apr.You know those groups of words that sound the same but mean something different? Words like “I scream” and “ice cream”? They are called wordles, and you and your child can have lots of fun reading them in a new picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Serge Bloch. The humorous but earnest message about valuing one's own talents comes through loud and clear. ) skillful storytelling moves along briskly. ) gives the utensils plenty of personality, with wide eyes and expressive antlike appendages, and Rosenthal's ( Little Pea “We could never function apart.” At bedtime, Spoon's mom offers encouragement (“Your friends will never know the joy of diving headfirst into a bowl of ice cream”) then invites him into the big bed-to spoon, of course. Outside conversations let readers know that Spoon is being envied right back: “Spoon is so lucky!” sigh the Chopsticks. Knife, for example, “is so lucky! He gets to cut, he gets to spread.” Not to mention Chopsticks: “Everyone thinks they're really cool and exotic! No one thinks I'm cool or exotic.” Spoon's mother doesn't try to change his mind, but reacts neutrally. Young Spoon lives a fairly happy life with a large extended family (including a ladle and a very fancy Aunt Silver), but he can't help being a bit jealous of some of his friends.
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