Lexie the Word Wrangler
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- 27,99 zł
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- 27,99 zł
Publisher Description
This clever celebration of words and their meanings features a strong cowgirl who wrangles words alongside cattle.
Lexie is the best wrangler west of the Mississippi—word wrangler, that is. She watches over baby letters while they grow into words and ties shorter words together into longer ones; she herds words into sentences, hitches sentences together, and pens them all in to tell a story. But lately, something seems off at the ranch. First the d goes missing from her bandana, leaving her with a banana to tie around her neck, and soon afterward every S-T-A-R in the sky turns into R-A-T-S. There’s no doubt about it—there’s a word rustler causing this ruckus, and Lexie plans to track him down . . . even if it means riding her horse through the sticky icing of a desert that’s suddenly become a giant dessert.
This fantastic spin on “cowboy” stories populates Lexie’s ranch with lively letters and words, alongside the typical cattle and horses, and stars a smart, confident, charismatic heroine. Rebecca Van Slyke’s creative, silly wordplay pairs perfectly with Jessie Hartland’s lively illustrations, and there’s even a glossary of helpful terms for up-and-coming word wranglers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lexie is a cowgirl, but she wrangles words, not cattle a concept that Van Slyke and Hartland explore with droll wordplay and bold, folk art style artwork. Lexie's talents include growing letters into words (a turns to at, cat, and cattle on a tree), tying words together ( "She could take a stick of butter and a pesky fly and make a beautiful butterfly"), and storytelling, but someone is causing mischief by mixing up words. "Ain't no fun sleeping out under the rats," grumbles Lexie after star gets jumbled. Luckily for Lexie, the culprit is an apprentice in the making. Luckily for readers, Van Slyke and Hartland deliver linguistic delights on every page. Compound words, anagrams, word chains, puns is there anything Lexie (and this book) can't do? Ages 5 8. Author's)