Word Searches and More

Dip into the greatest collection of wordplay ever assembled, by a puzzle columnist for the MENSA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL. Every conceivable category is covered--puns, anagrams, palindromes, malapropisms, oxymorons, and just plain curiosities--many never before published in book form. Snack on contronyms, military acronyms, misnomers, pangrams, rebuses, spoonerisms--the whole wide world of wacky things people do with words.

As kids solve these simple puzzles, they'll learn to recognize the basic sound and letter combinations that make up our language - setting the stage for speaking and reading success - what a great way to make phonics (and learning) fun! Each illustrated and inviting word search contains 10 words.

With this first-rate volume, your child will share the pleasures known to crossword puzzle fans of all ages. Here are thirty-five of the best, most imaginative word games and crossword puzzles for children ages seven to nine. Eugene T. Maleska, crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times and a former English and Latin teacher with the New York City school system, has brought together these original puzzles and games by the country's most illustrious puzzle constructors. This collection will introduce children everywhere to the fun and challenge of word games!

One of the most varied entries in the author's repertoire of puzzle books, this one contains mazes, spiralgrams, acrostics, logic puzzles, cryptograms, and much more. Designed for puzzle addicts and wordsmiths at every level of skill, this collection both tests vocabulary and feeds the mind. In this fun collection, words can be played with, puzzled over, conjured, and deciphered. More than a year's worth of word games are contained in this mammoth book.

Following the success of the first volume of word games for first, second and third graders, Eugene Maleska, crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times and a former English and Latin teacher, once again has produced a collection of forty imaginative, entertaining, enriching puzzles that delightfully show the youngest puzzle-doers how words work.