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Cdb!
C D B D B S A B-Z B.
Even the youngest child can look at the pictures, sound out the letters, and solve the puzzles in this classic wordplay book.
Even the youngest child can look at the pictures, sound out the letters, and solve the puzzles in this classic wordplay book.
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
May 17th 2005
by Aladdin Paperbacks
(first published January 1st 1968)
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C D B!
S, I C D B. S A B-Z B.
that has stuck with me since i was young. some pages are bit more awkward but the idea of the book is so much fun. and there is no life lesson- just an appreciation for language.
It would be a fun book to read with older kids- 4th and 5th graders- on a class visit, because you could have them guess what each page means.
Example: A P-N-E 4 U
is....
A peony for you!
Or
PT N J R N J-L
is..
Petey and J are in Jail.
The illustrations for this book are spot on perfect.
Example: A P-N-E 4 U
is....
A peony for you!
Or
PT N J R N J-L
is..
Petey and J are in Jail.
The illustrations for this book are spot on perfect.
This is the most awesome book for kids in the world. I remember this book like it was yesterday. Making the sounds and trying to figure out which words they were trying to mean. When I got each one I was simply enthralled. I would do the happy dance all through the halls into the kitchen to show my Mom that I had succeeded. I was a happy girl. In a sense I was reading, even though I was too young to read at the time. Even now, I remember how happy this book made me.
As an example, the books name...more
As an example, the books name...more
Decades before text messaging on cell phones was ever introduced to kids around the world, author William Steig gave us CDB!, the book of textesque (to coin a phrase) letter puzzles designed to stir the mind and excercise the intellect. Some of the puzzles in the book are fairly simple, requiring only a speedy read-through to figure out the meaning, but others are quite difficult, necessitating the use of mental free association powers to discern the proper pronunciations that lead to the right...more
Phonetics = fun
Dec 30, 2012
Dolly
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their older children
We recently read the book Wumbers by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. That book pays tribute to this one and while we'd read CDC? several years ago, we'd never read this one before.
This book has the same format as CDC? and the puzzles ranged from very easy to quite challenging. We really enjoyed sounding out the sentences and I was surprised at how complex they could get using only letters and numbers. The illustrations are colorful and humorous and usually help the reader figure out th...more
This book has the same format as CDC? and the puzzles ranged from very easy to quite challenging. We really enjoyed sounding out the sentences and I was surprised at how complex they could get using only letters and numbers. The illustrations are colorful and humorous and usually help the reader figure out th...more
"CDB" is such a creative book, that definitely triggers a child's thinking! I would definitely implement this book for inventive spelling, or to act as a stress reliever. I think you could do several fun activities with this, which would ultimately help children with the breakdown of their spelling. I think it'd be fun to have children create their own book, and then they could share it with the class to have them guess the meanings. You can try implement books with illustrations to help; howeve...more
Another delightful book by William Steig! I enjoyed sharing this one with my students, and I've kept a personal copy of it after all these years. Figuring some of the words out reminds me of deciphering some car license plates. The delight in figuring some of them out put a smile on my face! I hadn't picked this book up in several years, so a few of them took me a few seconds to figure out! Didn't mind, though--that much longer to enjoy! The illustrations are fun, and there's a key to the letter...more
An interesting children's book.
I was looking for books to get my twin niece and nephew and thought this might be funny. While it was clever, it didn't make me laugh at all. I thought some of the pages were pretty hard. I had to skip them and later pages had something similar I could figure out, so I could then go back and solve them.
I cannot say for which age group this would be appropriate. I can just say that while I liked it, I didn't love it, and it wasn't what I was looking for.
I was looking for books to get my twin niece and nephew and thought this might be funny. While it was clever, it didn't make me laugh at all. I thought some of the pages were pretty hard. I had to skip them and later pages had something similar I could figure out, so I could then go back and solve them.
I cannot say for which age group this would be appropriate. I can just say that while I liked it, I didn't love it, and it wasn't what I was looking for.
This is a really clever book because the sentences are not really sentences, they are simply letters that make sentences. I would use this book with older elementary students because they would be more likely to make sense of how the book is read. Students will have to access prior knowledge and look at the pictures in the book to figure out what sentence the letters are trying to convey. This would be a good book to read before doing a lesson on letter combinations and/or decoding.
I was made aware of this book (and its companion) when I read "Wumbers." I didn't know of them before. They are interesting and fun, though occasionally confusing. However, I got about 90% of them correct without looking at the answer key. Not bad! Could be a really fun game. Would be interesting to see how kids learning their letters and numbers would do with this. School-age kids would enjoy it. A nice way to look at things differently.
Apr 06, 2011
Jennifer Amichia
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-s-books,
writing
This book is very creative. The author doesn't try to hide his intentions at all as he showcases from the title that this text is a bit unconventional. When I was younger, my dad used to buy my brother & I academic workbooks to do at home. I remember one of them actually having invented spelling in it like this book. It definitely challenged me to pull on prior knowledge in order to decipher the text. Great book for comprehension!
This has been on my to-read list for a long while -- and it looks like I didn't wait long enough... Bea did not get it -- just kept saying this book is weird and why did it have to be so long.
I thought it was a pretty clever idea - some were really pretty hard. Good for an older kid that likes to puzzle things out and likes word play stuff I'd expect. That is just not my kid.
I always love his illustrations though.
I thought it was a pretty clever idea - some were really pretty hard. Good for an older kid that likes to puzzle things out and likes word play stuff I'd expect. That is just not my kid.
I always love his illustrations though.
Nov 23, 2010
Valerie
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I was familiar with Steig's work long before I knew he'd published any books--from his cartoons in magazines.
I'd forgotten this one, which was probably written during a period when rebuses were popular. These aren't quite rebuses, but rather cartoons with captions composed of single letters, which often have to be read aloud to be decoded.
A charming conceit, and recommended for anybody who likes word games.
I'd forgotten this one, which was probably written during a period when rebuses were popular. These aren't quite rebuses, but rather cartoons with captions composed of single letters, which often have to be read aloud to be decoded.
A charming conceit, and recommended for anybody who likes word games.
Apr 06, 2011
Tichina Fung-chung
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-s-books
This book is soooo creative! Instead of using words, the author uses letters. The reader is supposed to figure out each sentence by sounding out and putting each letter together. I think this book would be great for students when studying writing crafts. If students are writing a poem, maybe they can use letters instead of words to express their thoughts.
I really enjoyed reading this book because it caused my brain to sweat a little and think. In order to read it you must be able to decode it. This is a fun book to challenge students when they want one. This book would also work well with showing students differnt writing crafts and that not all words have to be real words, they can be sounds.
Fun book!! I would use this book anytime there is a little free time to get students to stretch their thinking and try to figure out what the text on the page says. Students are sure to enjoy this one. In an extension activity, students could write a book in their ow ncode and have friends try to figure out what they said!
Kids will still love this classic wordplay book which uses single letters and numerals to make sentences 4 U 2 decode. Steig's clever humor, combined with drawings that give just enough clues, is X-L-N fun. Can you figure out "I N-V U" or "D N S 5 X"? Just in case, there's an answer key in back - but no P-K-N!
Apr 10, 2011
Molly Darr
added it
This book was a little strange to me. I had trouble figuring out what most of the letters were trying to say and resorted often to the key in the back. With technology how it is today students are begining to type in coding at very young ages, I'm sure this book is a little easier for them.
Not quite sure how I feel about this book yet, it was very interesting. The whole book is almost written in texting format and while that is very popular now it just seems kind of odd that it is a book. It does cause you to think though and might be good for a morning thinking question.
This is an interesting idea for a book and a very creative take on using letters to represent words. However, I would not recommend it to emerging readers. Even as a fluent reader, I was having difficulty deciphering the meaning of the seemingly random letters on each page.
Apr 08, 2011
Ngoc Dang
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-s-literature
This was hard to read. I have to repeated a couple of times to really get it. I almost got a headache. I think this might be a fun book for children to read and try so sound out the letters to know the words. I can read this book when I'm free and not stress.
I resent the description above that says even the youngest children can figure these word puzzles out. I tried my best, but there were still a few solution that eluded me. So tricky! Still, it's a cute and clever book with Steig's signature illustrations.
CDB is a very clever book. I would love to see children work with this book to try and translate it. Students could also come up with their own stories and make a answer key. Students could trade their stories with other students to see how others translated words.
This was a favorite book when I was young. I was fascinated by the cryptic letters across the page that didn't make any sense until I read them aloud. It was a puzzle and a joke all at once and it never got old.
Cool concept! A book written with no words, sort of. Some of the pages will make you stop and think, but if you say the letters out loud, you'll get it. I can't explain it....you'll have to see for yourself.
What a fun children's book. Had this when I was a kid. Thought it was about me since my initials were DB.
C D B! = See the bee! (Or See DB!)
D B S A BZ B! (The bee is a busy bee!)
...and so on
C D B! = See the bee! (Or See DB!)
D B S A BZ B! (The bee is a busy bee!)
...and so on
One of my all-time silly faves since it was first assigned in a college children's lit class. I'm pulling my copy out for my kids to giggle over tomorrow.
Each page is a situation, described entirely by individual alphabet letters. (C D B! = See the Bee!) Needs an adult to truly appreciate it.
Read to me several times by my Grandmother, developed my love of word games, pun and puzzles.
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William Steig was born in New York City in 1907. In a family where every member was involved in the arts, it was not surprising that Steig became an artist.
He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968, embarking on a new and very different career.
Steig's books reflect his conviction that children want the security of a devoted family and friends. When Sylvester, Farmer...more
More about William Steig...
He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968, embarking on a new and very different career.
Steig's books reflect his conviction that children want the security of a devoted family and friends. When Sylvester, Farmer...more
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