Higgledy-Piggledy.Higgledy-Piggledy Christine D'Amico, author Darcy Bell-Myers, illustrator Attitude Press PO Box 16095, Minneapolis, MN 55416 0971663114 $16.95 Higgledy-Piggledy is a charming picturebook about young first grader A grader, also commonly referred to as a blade or a motor grader, is an engineering vehicle with a large blade used to create a flat surface. Typical models have three axles, with the engine and cab situated above the rear axles at one end of the vehicle and a third Mabel and a teacher who goes out of her way to teach her class the oddest and most tongue-tying words in the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. , such as "shilly-shally", "flapdoodle flap·doo·dle also flap-doo·dle n. Slang Foolish talk; nonsense: "Behind the tourist flap-doodle, authentic [Key West] ," "tittle-tattle", "pecadillo", and "higgledy-piggledy". They may seem strange, but they are real words from the Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) great multi-volume historical dictionary of English. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words] See : Lexicography ! Mabel can't wait to share the word "higgledy-piggledy" with her family, but they don't believe it's A real word when she does. But spirited young Mabel won't back down, resulting in some truly higgledy-piggledy situations! The playful play·ful adj. 1. Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive: a playful kitten. 2. color artwork sets just the right tone for Higgledy-Piggledy, and the last two pages have fill-in-the-blank sentences for young people to try using the word for themselves, as well as a list of seven fun activities such as coloring the black-and-white pictures of Mabel in the front and back of the book, creating a higgledy-piggledy button, or learning about words from the dictionary. |
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