“Early one morning, Anna was eating breakfast. She dipped her spoon into the bowl. The cereal letters spelled DAWN. Anna watched the letters float around in the spoon. Now they spelled WAND. “Magic!” said Anna, finishing her breakfast And with the magic spoon for a wand, Anna became a Word Wizard!”
“Word Wizard” by Cathryn Falwell is a picture book that is an adventure in words for you and your children. While eating her cereal one morning Anna is transformed into a word wizard. Her power allows her to switch the letters in words around to form other words. Anna finds a lost boy in the woods and with her powers helps him get home. For instance when she comes upon an OCEAN she turns the letters around to form a CANOE that she and the boy can sail in.
When a STONE gets in their way, she turns the stone into some NOTES. Throughout the book she turns lots of words around until finally she is able to get the boy home safely. She turns a SWORD into WORDS and gives them to the boy. With words anything is possible.
This is a fun story for your children to read, as well as an interestingly illustrated book. The words that Anna scrambles throughout the book are illustrated by taking lots of different paper scraps cut into letters that are then pasted on pieces of heavy white paper.
This is a great book to teach your children about word structures, and how words are put together.
After reading the book you and your children can become word wizards. The back of the book has some suggestions for making your own collages of words. You can collect letters of cereal boxes and newspapers, as well as make your own letters out of buttons, vegetables, twigs, or anything else you can think of.
You can get Word Wizard at your local bookstore or online at Amazon.com