{"product_id":"ounce-dice-trice-isbn-9781590173206","title":"Ounce Dice Trice","description":"What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in \u003ci\u003eOunce Dice Trice\u003c\/i\u003e, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, \u003ci\u003eOunce Dice Trice\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.\u003cp\u003e\"I want every children's book editor and also every primary and middle school teacher  and librarian in America to read this book. It is the antidote to plotting, plot-driven,  two-line synopsizable, anti-imagination books....[\u003ci\u003eOunce Dice Trice\u003c\/i\u003e] can be read cover  to cover, back to front, middle to end, upside down, any way you like. \"  --Daniel  Pinkwater, \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, 12\/12\/09\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ben Shahn’s drawings turn \u003ci\u003eOunce,  Dice, Trice\u003c\/i\u003e, a word-nonsense book by Alastair Reid, into an art book.”–\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles  Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book, with more than 100 pictures by Ben Shahn, was designed to amuse  and the words belong on the borderline where ‘the poet and the child meet.’” –\u003ci\u003eThe  New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Quite marvelous. Illustrated masterfully by artist Ben Shahn. A highly-unusual treat for ages 6 to 100.” \u003ci\u003e—Orange Marmalade Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For decades, New Yorker writer Alastair Reid has been collecting  words, weird ones. In \u003ci\u003eOunce, Dice, Trice,\u003c\/i\u003e the words play tricks on each other and  on the reader. Gongoozler. Piddocks. Mumruffin. Reid twists them into rhymes and  draws odd connections between them in this book part dictionary, part gonomony receptacle...With  black-and-white sketches by painter Ben Shahn, \u003ci\u003eOunce, Dice, Trice\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to great  fun for the average gongozzler (idle person) of any age.\" –\u003ci\u003eThe Bergen County Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are 57 pages of this delightful nonsense, with equally delightful illustrations.  My wife and I love it.\" –David Halperin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alastair Reid is a word magician.” –Bill  Buford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ben Shahn is among the most important American artists of this century.”  –\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOunce, Dice, Trice\u003c\/i\u003e, an Alastair Reid book of poems for juveniles,  introduces children to the fun of words. Introducing children to words in any form  is, to my mind, one of the noblest of endeavors. Alastair himself has had great fun  with words, both poetically and prosaically.” –\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eIf you like nonsense  words with meanings they ought to have then you’ll like this book. If you get tired  of counting to 10 in an ordinary way, try it ounce, dice, trice, quartz, quince,  sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, and denim. The pictures are fine too. An enjoyable  book.” –\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlastair Reid \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He had been on the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are \u003ci\u003eA Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMillionaires\u003c\/i\u003e (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and \u003ci\u003eSupposing\u003c\/i\u003e (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, \u003ci\u003eInside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOutside In: Selected Prose.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Shahn \u003c\/b\u003e(1898–1969) was a painter, muralist, print-maker, and illustrator. He was best known for his socially and politically informed artwork, including a famous series of paintings depicting the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. His 1956 Charles Eliot Norton lectures were collected and published as \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Content\u003c\/i\u003e, and he illustrated numerous books of poetry. \u003ci\u003eOunce Dice Trice\u003c\/i\u003e is the only book he illustrated that was written specifically for children.","brand":"NYR Children's Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302370300133,"sku":"NP9781590173206","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173206.jpg?v=1767734310","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ounce-dice-trice-isbn-9781590173206","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}