Stop and Go, Yes and No: What Is an Antonym?

Words Are CATegorical ®

by Brian P. Cleary, Brian Gable (Illustrator)

What is an antonym? You’ll find the answer inside this book―it’s all about antonyms! Author Brian P. Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable creatively clarify (not confuse) the concept of antonyms. Their clever (not foolish) rhymes and comical (not serious) illustrations combine to highlight key words. Each pair or group of antonyms is printed in color for easy identification.

Genres: Picture Books, Nonfiction, Childrens, Writing

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Nancy Kotkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Text: 5 stars
Illustrations: 4 stars

Part of the Words Are CATegorical series. Excellent children's nonfiction picture book about antonyms. Defines antonyms and provides lots of humorous examples. The antonyms are in color to differentiate those words from the other text.

The rhyming text makes learning fun and is surprisingly clear. The cartoon-like art style also adds to the kid appeal of the book and helps to make grammar education more interesting for children. The illustrations provide strong visual support for the concepts presented in the book.

[Mari Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a fun way to explain what antonyms are. It gives plenty of examples with rhyming words and a fun rhythm. It explains the importance of antonyms and how it grows vocabulary. This is an awesome book for the classroom or even at home to get a head start. The illustrations are silly and entertaining. I also love that it explains prefixes that aid antonyms and encourages students to build words using prefixes.

[Madison Impton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book defines antonyms and provides tons of examples for young children to help them learn. With its fun rhyme scheme this book is easy to read and rather entertaining. If you are looking for a book to accompany a lesson on antonyms, this can be used to provide children with tons of great examples.

[Whole And · Rating 4 out of 5]

Antonyms! Easy and fun to understand. We read this along with
"Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym?"

[Ice 9 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Ronns Marston · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is too short !

[Gail Sacharski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another clever rhyming book in the language/grammar series about antonyms, words with opposite meanings.

[Colin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having done a unit on synonyms, now we did a unit on antonyms - and this book is part of a great series for little kids about English grammar . . .

[Shelby Rollenhagen · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with all the others in this series, I got these to share with my children as a fun and cute way to discuss language and have not been disappointed. They are cute and engaging for kids.

[Tia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Antonyms

This is a great book with amazing illustrations.
It's fun learning about antonyms.
Even the prefixes helping to create an antonym.
I enjoy reading this author books and highly recommend this book.

[Luann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This starts with simple antonyms like fast and slow, high and low, and goes to more advanced such as hefty and diminutive. Students at my school particularly love the quirky illustrations of cats (I think they're cats! :) that help make clear the many antonyms given. I've used this, paired with Pitch And Throw, Grasp And Know: What Is A Synonym?, in library lessons for a couple of years now and it is always a hit. My favorite line says: "In fall, the farmer harvests crops. In spring, he's busy plantin' 'em. These opposites can be explained because you've got an antonym!"

[Madonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an excellent activator for a literacy lesson on antonyms. Throughout the entire book antonym words are stated with colorful pictures to portray meaning. The book is a good way to explain the meaning of antonyms to students.

[Rita · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book can be used to introduce antonyms. The book has a lot of colorful illustrations and all the antonyms are highlighted for easy identification. It also has a couple of rhyming words that you can ask your students to identify.

[Katy Houseman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is all about antonyms. It is a fun book that uses a lot of rhyming words and humor. For every antonym used there is an illustration that goes along with it. This book is ideal to teach students about antonyms. Brian P. cleary is an excellent author. Hats off to you!

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

We're enjoying these "Words are Categorical" series, although I am only giving 4 stars because I do not care for the illustrations.

[Relyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, I love this whole series of books. I use them every year to teach parts of speech.

[Melissa Nastja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great examples of antonyms and what they are. Teacher can create games (matching) for the students to practice antonyms. The book explains where to find them, and when they could use them.

[Annette Steele · Rating 3 out of 5]

See my comments on Hairy, Scary, Ordinary... DITTO

Also Antonyms is a State Standard for 3rd grade....my new class in the fall!

[Christine Kelcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are so in love with these books! They make teaching the parts of speech fun and incredibly easy.

[Arlene · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I had his entire collection of books about the parts of speech. Fun illustrations and examples of things that can be challenging.

[Kerri Harshaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great to use when introducing antonyms to children. The rhyming text defines antonyms and give many examples. Funny illustrations. Look for other Cleary books.

[Bethe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun with antonyms, which always seem easier for young readers than synonyms.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covers many examples of the use of an antonym. Well written and with colorful pictures to keep the younger reader interested. A fun and educational read.