The Books

Sparkle and Spin: A Book About Words

by Ann Rand
Illustrated by Paul Rand

One Potato Review

This begins with a question: “What are words?” Yet the amazing thing about this book is how tempting it is to look at everything but the words. Never has the burden of actually reading seemed so acute. These roomy, sunny pictures speak to the infinite possibilities of so much cutting and pasting. Like sentences. Watch and listen:

Words can sing a song
or say “good night, Mother.”

This is what words are for.
All these and many more
teach us how
to talk to one another.