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Smart Feller Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms
by
Jon Agee
Everybody says spoonerisms. They happen by accident when you re talking or thinking too fast and you flip-flop the initial sounds of words. Like when you mean to say HANDLE WITH CARE, but it comes out CANDLE WITH HAIR. Or when A WELL-OILED BICYCLE comes out A WELL-BOILED ICICLE, or THANKS FOR DOING THE CHORES turns into THANKS FOR CHEWING THE DOORS.
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Hardcover, 64 pages
Published
October 15th 2006
by Michael Di Capua Books
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What happens when you mix up the first letters of a pair of words? Shel Silverstein’s last book Runny Babbit (Harper Collins, 2005) did exactly that, and in Smart Feller, Fart Smeller, Jon Agee presents his own twist on the concept – why not make spoonerism riddles? A slew of verbal mix-ups follow.
After an introduction to how spoonerisms got their name, he provides a series of questions, such as “What did Rapunzel say to the filthy giant?” The reader turns the page to find the answer...more
After an introduction to how spoonerisms got their name, he provides a series of questions, such as “What did Rapunzel say to the filthy giant?” The reader turns the page to find the answer...more
I'd never heard of spoonerisms, phrases made by swapping the initial sounds of words, but then again there is no end to the things I don't know. Nor the number of word game books by Agee, as I keep discovering. Some neato entries:
"What did the yokel say to the cute little girl? -- You have such a dirty pimple."
"What did the stockbroker say about the economy? -- Bad news can make your socks stink."
"What did the cowboy say to the rocket scientist?...more
"What did the yokel say to the cute little girl? -- You have such a dirty pimple."
"What did the stockbroker say about the economy? -- Bad news can make your socks stink."
"What did the cowboy say to the rocket scientist?...more
Fun collection of Spoonerisms, illustrated to get the most out of their goofiness (i.e., Candle with Hair is a pretty funny picture). Some of these are pretty sophisticated to reverse and unravel -- there is a helpful list at the end of "what they meant to say." Would be fun for group sharing, vocabulary, and pairing with Runny Babbit.
Z laughed it loud at a few of these and is now kind of obsessively making up Spoonerisms. Which I guess is a good thing.
This one made me laugh really hard! Its worth at least checking out of the library.
This book is hilarious. It is a little kidish but you shoild read it.
Cute book, and not at all what I expected. The illustrations were a great way to show the spoonerisms in their absurdity.
Spoonerisms. When you're talking or thinking too fast and your words come out all wrong. Like saying Fart Smeller instead of Smart Feller.
Funny for older children.
Funny for older children.
A very short collection of cartoons that illustrate "Spoonerisms," or phrases where the first part of two words are switched. Clever and humorously illustrated.
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