The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants by Priscilla Turner

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. 6-8) - Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. Next to books like Eve Merriam's Fighting Words (1992) or Bill Martin and John Archambault's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (1989), the language play here seems clumsy. ``The poems! The plays! Our memoirs!'' Actually, even careless readers will notice that both sides have been using each other right along in speech, an evidently unintended paradox. supersix.pdf) Rolentor Texts The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants by Priscilla Turner The Vowel Family: A Tale of Lost Letters by Sally. ``Just think what we can accomplish together,'' enthuses the Supreme Command to the Commander in Chief. The plot in a nutshell: A war breaks out between vowels and consonants, but when they meet a common enemy, they have to work together. ' '' Sprouting stick limbs and large hats, the letters, uppercase if adult, lowercase when young, swarm antlike across cleanly drawn backdrops. Written by Priscilla Turner, Illustrated by Whitney Turner Farrar Straus Girous, 1996 For as long as anyone letter could remember, Vowels and Consonants had been enemies.

The uneasy truce between the aristocratic vowels and the plebian consonants finally breaks down into open warfare, but at the advent of a giant scribble (oxymoronically described as ``zigs and zags with no form at all''), they join together to ``STOP'' the monster and bid it ``GO AWAY.'' `` `I can't fight that,' whimpered the jumble. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Only occasional flashes of cleverness illuminate this parable of warring camps uniting in the face of a common threat. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. /rebates/2f97814395849722fVowels-Consonants-Priscilla-Turner-14395849742fplp&.