Horn, pants, nails, trunk, pitcher -- all words that can mean more than one thing. Arlene Alda has put together words and images in a delightful and witty book of photographs as inviting as a pair of juicy pears. "Did You Say Pears?" takes a playful and very clever look at words that sound the same but have different meanings. Young readers will love to hone their budding sense of language with the deceptively simple text and the irresistible photographs that offer a first taste of the richness of words. A useful information page explaining the wordplay is included.

Did You Say Pears encourages readers to think about words in different ways by sharing homonyms (words that sound alike, have the same spelling, but have different meanings). For instance, a horn could be the body part of an animal, or it could be part of a brass instrument. Pants could be something a dog does when he’s hot, or it could mean clothes you’re wearing on your legs! Real photographs are used to display an example of each homonym in bright crisp colors across the page.

Coming up with homonyms is a fun game, especially during a road trip or rainy day. What  new homonyms can you and your little one come up with? Can you draw them together, or take pictures like displayed in the book?  This also opens the door to teaching synonyms and onomatopoeias, which little ones always have fun with!