7 edition of Wally the Wordworm found in the catalog.
Published
1983
by Stemmer House in Owings Mills, Md
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Written in English
A worm with a voracious appetite for words who has grown bored with those he finds in the tabloids, discovers the dictionary where his flagging appetite revives. Includes puns, puzzles, and plays on words.
Edition Notes
| Statement | Clifton Fadiman ; illustrated by Lisa Atherton. |
| Contributions | Atherton, Lisa, ill. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PZ7.F13 Wal 1983 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 55 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 55 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3167156M |
| ISBN 10 | 088045038X |
| LC Control Number | 83009181 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 9731455 |
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A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he inches into a magical book: the dictionary. From this moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of. Overview A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he inches into a magical book: the dictionary.
From this moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of epic proportions, twisting himself into the likes Brand: David R.
Godine, Publisher. Chuck 'em out the window and I don't mean maybe!"" is the moral of this story about Wally, a worm who lives on words. In his search for variety, he comes upon a dictionary in which he discovers such tongue trippers as syzygy, pyx, sesquipedalian, and zymurgy.
Description A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he inches into a magical book: the dictionary.
From this moment, he embarks upon a logomaniacal odyssey of epic proportions, twisting himself into the likes of "syzygy" and "sesquipedalian", "pyx" and "zymurgy". From its first publication inchildren and adults alike have been delighted by Wally’s wriggling through rhymes and words of increasing ambition and complexity, his acrobatics whimsically illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth.
This edition includes an afterword by Clifton Fadiman’s daughter, the author Anne Fadiman. Wally the Wordworm Electronics – January 1, out of 5 stars 7 ratings.
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Wally the Wordworm (Book): Fadiman, Clifton: A worm with a voracious appetite for words who has grown bored with those he finds in the tabloids, discovers the dictionary where his flagging appetite revives.
Includes puns, puzzles, and plays on words, as well as. Wally the Wordworm not only liked to eat words, he liked to meet them greet them and repeat them. And so the story goes he works his way through a book that is "filled, stuffed, packed, bulging, crammed, and jammed with words of all shapes and sizes." A etymological buffet, of sorts.
Here is a hardback copy of “Wally The Wordworm” by Clifton Fadiman. This book is in good condition, with age wear to the covers. No dust jacket. There is writing on the first inside page of the book. This is a 1st printing, dated Thanks for looking!!Seller Rating: % positive.
It’s published by David R. Godine, Inc., an independent publishing house in Boston, which Fadiman approached a few years ago about getting “Wally” back.
The bookstore co-owner brought that book, Wally the Wordworm, to the attention of publisher David R. Godine, who published a new edition of it last fall. First appearing inWally the Wordworm follows an insatiable bookish worm on a "logomaniacal odyssey of epic proportions" through the dictionary.
Wally the Wordworm is a New Hardcover available to purchase and shipped from Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown, PA. The author is Clifton Fadiman,Anne Fadiman. This was released by David R Godine in October The digit ISBN is The digit ISBN is Anne Fadiman, Wally the Wordworm Prize-winning author Anne Fadiman presents and reads from a newly re-issued edition of her father Clifton Fadiman 's book for children, Wally the Wordworm.
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[Clifton Fadiman; Lisa Atherton] -- A worm with a voracious appetite for words who has grown bored with those he finds in the tabloids, discovers the dictionary where his flagging appetite revives.
Includes puns, puzzles, and plays on.Get this from a library! Wally the Wordworm. [Clifton Fadiman; Arnold Roth] -- A worm with a voracious appetite for words who has grown bored with those he finds in the tabloids, discovers the dictionary where his flagging appetite revives.
Includes puns, puzzles, and plays on.
