Was It a Cat I Saw? is a lively and unusual children카지노 게임 컬렉션s picture book about a young girl who helps a friend find a missing pet 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Wait, did you catch that?
Read the title again. Now try reading it backwards.
See it?
The title is a palindrome 카지노 게임 컬렉션 a word or phrase that reads the same back to front 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and it is one of many used throughout the first published children카지노 게임 컬렉션s picture book by Laura (Herdman) Bontje, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션11.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I have just always loved wordplay of all kinds and the mechanics of language,카지노 게임 컬렉션 explains Ms. Bontje from her home in London, Ont. 카지노 게임 컬렉션My mom카지노 게임 컬렉션s a really big reader and my dad gave me this love for puns and dad jokes 카지노 게임 컬렉션 all the ways we can use words to entertain really fascinate me.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Now an editor, Ms. Bontje developed a love of wordplay at an early age when she discovered that 카지노 게임 컬렉션bookkeeper카지노 게임 컬렉션 is one of the only English words that has three sets of double letters in a row. Her first encounter with a palindrome involved Napoleon: Able was I ere I saw Elba. She likely didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t have much knowledge about the French emperor at that age: the wordplay was what fascinated her. Years later, when she was completing a degree in English at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, she was again drawn to linguistics.
In her third year, she volunteered for a linguistics lab that was testing kids카지노 게임 컬렉션 pronunciation of nonsense words. Researchers noticed that they would read them using the same rules of English even though the words were made up. It demonstrated, she says, that we intuitively understand certain conventions of our language.
Telling a story with palindromes was Ms. Bontje카지노 게임 컬렉션s original idea for Was It a Cat I Saw? 카지노 게임 컬렉션 an idea that began during the pandemic after she had been laid off from her job and found herself at home with her two kids. One day the name Hannah popped into her mind and she recalls thinking, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Hey, that카지노 게임 컬렉션s kind of fun. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s a palindrome.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Her original concept was to write an entire book, line for line, that could be read forwards and backwards. She struggled with that concept, she admits, and eventually shifted gears to having Hannah speak in palindromes. 카지노 게임 컬렉션From there, everything just fell into place.카지노 게임 컬렉션
When a friend카지노 게임 컬렉션s cat, Otto, goes missing, Hannah and her friend head off on an adventure around their neighbourhood to find him. Italian artist Emma Lidia Squillari카지노 게임 컬렉션s beautiful watercolour illustrations and a notable lack of technology give the story a timeless quality, while Ms. Bontje카지노 게임 컬렉션s narrative weaves a tale about exploration and discovery around palindromes, which are highlighted throughout.
By focusing on palindromes, Ms. Bontje카지노 게임 컬렉션s picture book highlights creativity and the 카지노 게임 컬렉션infinite number of things we can do with language. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s an opportunity to introduce children to something they may not have encountered before,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Maybe the average kid doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션t notice [palindromes], but I know somewhere out there, there카지노 게임 컬렉션s a kid sitting in a classroom who has discovered palindromes for the first time and thinks they카지노 게임 컬렉션re the coolest thing.카지노 게임 컬렉션
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