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The Circus of Words: Acrobatic Anagrams, Parading Palindromes, Wonderful Words on a Wire, and More Lively Letter Play (Paperback)

by Richard Lederer (Author), Dave Morice (Illustrator) "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Fit-as-a-fiddle boys and girls!..." (more)
Key Phrases: letter play, longest word, Dave Morice, Ana Gram, Circus of Words (more...)
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From School Library Journal
Gr 5-8-This complex book will work best for those who have already had some experience with anagrams, palindromes, and other such word forms. The exercises are challenging, with lots of examples that sometimes lack clarity. The use of the circus motif to link all these activities together seems forced at times, but the chapter "The Palindromedary" works well with the exercises tied to circus animals and actions. The simple, black-and-white drawings and old-fashioned circus pictorials are static and lend little life to the text. This is a book that, in spite of itself, offers a lot of fun and challenges.

Edith Ching, St. Albans School, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, DC

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Presidential Trivia and the Current Election

10:24 PM PDT, March 16, 2008
We are engaged in the most protracted presidential election in history. Many would claim that it is also among the most passionate and important. One thing’s for sure: The 2007-2008 presidential election is among the most unusual that American voters have ever experienced:
  • Neither George Bush nor Dick Cheney is running for office. The last time that we had a presidential election in which no incumbent ran was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon defeated Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman. 1952 was also the last year that a nomination went more than one round in a convention, in this case the Democratic convention.
  • Only two sitting senators have become president -- Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. Currently, three sitting senators are vying for the presidency, and, until recently, John Edwards, another sitting senator, was in the race.
  • If John McCain becomes president, he will be the oldest man -- ever to enter that office: 72 and 1/2 years of age. Ronald Reagan was formerly the oldest: 69 years and 11 months. In fact, heretofore, only Reagan and Eisenhower were 70 years old while in office. Born August 29, 1936, McCain would become the first American president born in the 1930s (my decade, by the way).
  • If elected, John McCain will become our third president who was a prisoner of war (the first two were George Washington and Andrew Jackson) and our second Naval Academy graduate, after Jimmy Carter.
  • Hillary Clinton is the only First Lady to be elected to any office, in this case junior senator from New York. If Hillary is elected, she will be the first woman to be president. But she won't be our shortest president by a longshot. She is listed at a height of 5'8 1/2," making her taller than 10 previous presidents.
  • If Barack Obama is elected, he will be the first president of non-Northern European ancestry, the first African American, and the fourth left hander among our last seven presidents. (Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton were/are left handed -- and so is John McCain.) He would also be our fifth youngest president. Only Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Ulysses S. Grant entered office younger.
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