Honkus Bonkus - 23 December 2024

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  You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.

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  I'm Grant Barrett.

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  And I'm Martha Barnett.

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  What if instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive?

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  And what if that dictionary also had feelings?

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  And that dictionary felt sad because unlike all the other books on the shelf,

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  she didn't have a story to tell.

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  She just had lots of words that were arranged in alphabetical order.

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  Well that's the idea behind a new children's book called The Dictionary Story.

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  It's by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston and this is a book that's lavishly illustrated and the story is a little bit hard to explain but I'll try.

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  One day, a hungry alligator gets loose from the A section of the dictionary,

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  and he goes chasing after a donut over in the Ds.

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  And the donut rolls away, and the chase continues through the dictionary.

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  And the alligator and the donut run into a ghost and a puddle and a few other things.

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  And then over in the T section, everything goes topsy turvy when they run into a tornado.

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  So how does all this get back in order?

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  Well, That's what the alphabet's for.

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  So this is an imaginative book, and if you're an adult and you're looking at it long enough,

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  you'll find a lot of other surprises for you as well.

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  So that book is The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston.

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