
Download Printable List of Word Play Books
Best Picture Books Celebrating Word Play and Words
Lexie the Word WranglerThe Boy Who Loved Words
The Great Dictionary Caper
The Word Collector
Betty’s Burgled Bakery: An Alliteration Adventure
Top Dog: And Other Doggone Delightful Expressions
Wordplay: TOON Level 1 (Toon Books)
E-mergency
Take Away the A
Alphabetter (Peace Dragon)
Noah Webster’s Fighting Words
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Betty’s Burgled Bakery An Alliteration Adventure by Travis Nichols
Top Dog and Other Doggone Delightful Expressions by Carli Davidson
Word Play by Ivan Brunetti
What happens when you remove the letter A? Well, Beast becomes best. How about the letter D? Dice becomes ice. Super funny with an unexpected plot!
The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter, illustrated by Giselle Potter
This beautiful picture book swells, sparkles, harmonizes and percolates with main character, Selig’s (also called Wordsworth’s,) passion for words. “You too may find yourself lucky if, one day, while you are thinking or writing or simply speaking, the perfect word just seems to come to you. If so, you’ll know that Selig is near.”
Anagrams are words that when mixed up spell different words or phrases using all the letters. The authors make it easy to tell by putting the anagrams in similar fonts and tell the story of a mixed-up word world. This would be a fantastic book for an elementary classroom.
“Bring me to your AUNT. She’s A NUT.”
“Poor Grandma! What a VILE, EVIL way to LIVE.”

Start Your Own Word Collections
There are multiple ways to begin your own collections. Find a special container such as an empty jar like you see above.
Cut out words you LOVE in magazines.
Write down words that INTEREST you on note cards.
Be on the look out for UNUSUAL words in signs. Take photos.
Use sticky notes to write down FAVORITE and WONDERFUL words in the stories you read — picture books or chapter books.
Keep organized with a notebook or container.
Use Your Wonderful Words
Make up silly words of your own! Take two words and combine them together.
Write found poetry using your new words.
Play these five favorite word play games!
What are your favorite things to do with words?
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