Buz Words - Softcover

This award-winning finalist--Education PreK-12, USABookNews--highlights a boy's afternoon quest for homonyms. With his mother's help, Buz becomes a pro at recognizing these tricky, “pair words." It begins as a backyard adventure that showcases the eager-to-learn spirit of a young boy and the patience of a mother. It's a rhythmic story of discovery that keeps Buz guessing, while a vigilant Mom guides his learning, pointing out homonyms all around him. Simultaneous.

"Now I get the spelling--/b-r-a-k-e on a car or a train./But I still need some help/with the word b-r-e-a-k in my brain." Wholly Homonyms! How can two words that sound the same mean two different things? And, how in the world can they be spelled differently? Buz is a kid who wants answers and Mom is just the person to help! It's a mother and son adventure, hunting a whole hoard of HOMONYMS! The first in a series of Buz Words(TM) Books. Award-Winning Finalist, Education--PreK-12, USA Book News, Best Books 2006 Book Awards. From the Back Cover: "He's a boy who likes learning./He's a boy who likes rhyme./He's a boy who understands/pair words in record time./Dressed up in different letters,/sounding just the same,/figuring out the spelling/proves to be the game." Author and illustrator María Felicia Kelley brings to life this book of word discovery. In rhythmic fashion, her characters, Buz and Mom, spend an afternoon spotting "pair words"--homonyms--words of similar sounds with different meanings and spellings.