Bigger Words for Little Geniuses

by Susan Patterson, James Patterson, Hsinping Pan (Illustrator)

Overview

Kids are never too young to start learning! With big, fun-to-say words for every letter of the alphabet, this book will deliver read-aloud laughs while teaching something new to both parent and child.


Do you know your gnashnabb from your widdershins? When was the last time you saw something orchidaceous or dolichopodous? Learn all these sophisticated words and more in this brilliant picture book by bestselling authors James and Susan Patterson!


With bright, imaginative artwork by Hsinping Pan, each word offers a definition and pronunciation to give your little genius—and you!—the most impressive vocabulary ever. Includes a list of extra words in the back for further learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316534451
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	09/02/2019
Series:	Big Words for Little Geniuses Series , #3
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	17,480
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	NC750L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Susan Solie Patterson has dreamed of writing and art directing a children's book since she received her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She wrote the New York Times bestselling Big Words for Little Geniuses and Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses with her husband, James Patterson.

James Patterson is the world's bestselling author. The creator of Max Einstein and Middle School, he founded JIMMY Patterson to publish books that young readers will love. He lives in Florida with his family.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Little Geniuses series


National Storytime Title
Best Picture Book of the Month selection
—Barnes and Noble

"Continuing the vocabulary-building they began in Big Words for Little Geniuses, the Pattersons focus here on creatures with names that beg to be sounded out and relished—from the "silly-looking aye-aye" to the "adorable" dumbo octopus, axolotl, and jerboa. Pan supplies stylized portraits in illustrations that are all bright colors and blobby shapes, as cheery as Matisse paper collages. ...This parade will give the next generation of Jane Goodalls and Roger Tory Petersons a leg up on some of the wild kingdom's more colorful (and sonorously named) residents."
— Kirkus Reviews

"Sheer fun to say."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-07-24
More labial lollipops for logomanes and sesquipedalian proto-savants.

The creators of Big Words for Little Geniuses (2017) and Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses (2018) follow up with another ABC of extravagant expressions. It begins with "ailurophile" ("How furry sweet!" Puns, yet), ends with "zoanthropy," and in between highlights "bioluminescent," growls at a grouchy "gnashnab," and collects a "knickknackatory" of like locutions. A list of 14 additional words is appended in a second, partial alphabet. Each entry comes with a phonetic version, a one- or two-sentence verbal definition, and, from Pan, a visual one with a big letter and very simple, broadly brushed figures. Lending an ear to aural pleasures, the authors borrow from German to include "fünfundfünfzig" in the main list and add a separate list of a dozen more words at the end likewise deemed sheer fun to say. Will any of these rare, generally polysyllabic leviathans find their way into idiolects or casual conversations? Unlikely, alas—but sounding them out and realizing that even the silliest have at least putative meanings sheds liminal light on language's glittering word hoards.

Only gnashnabs would cavil at this eximious display of lexicographical largesse. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews