Washoe County Library System

"Quatrain? What kind of train is that? Actually, it's a poem! Quatrains are poems with patterns of rhyming words. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how quatrains work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written."--Publisher's description.

Rhyming text and illustrations present numerous examples of adverbs and their functions.

Collects humorous limericks for children.

Explains the concept of homonyms and homophones.

Illustrations and rhyming text explain how to form irregular plurals.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of verbs, from "toss and tumble," "jump and jam," to "whine and whisper," "sleep and slam."

Test your tongue on these tricky twisters and see if it gets tied up in knots.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of pronouns and their functions, from "he" and "she" to "anyone", "neither", and "which."

Clever rhymes and comical illustrations combine to explain the concept of synonyms.