HOW TO ENCOURAGE A LOVE FOR ENGLISH WORDPLAY IN YOUR CHILD?

 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Giggles (9) is slowly showing signs of being genuinely interested in puns and wordplay. He actually gets a giggle out of using words cleverly when he speaks or when he comes across a pun in a book he is reading.

This classic was written way back in the early 60s but is so relevant today too! This book tells the story of young Milo who is bored by everything (much like 9-year-olds usually are). He is gifted a strange Tollbooth which transports him to a strange land called Kingdom of Wisdom where he meets, among others, Tock the watchdog, Rhyme and Reason - exiled princesses and tries to stop himself from jumping to Conclusions (an actual place in the Kingdom of Wisdom!) This book is filled with clever puns and wordplay and is a treat for mid-level readers.

Giggles read it once over and dove right back into it to read it once more because he wanted to, "revisit the fun wordplay and laugh once more!" A complete win, in my world, when it comes to a fun summer read