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Yaks yak animal word pairs

Presents animals acting out the verbs made from their names, including hogs hogging, slugs slugging, and other creatures demonstrating homographs, words with different meanings that are spelled and pronounced the same.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Park, Linda Sue (Author)
Other Authors:	Reinhardt, Jennifer Black, 1963- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
Subjects:	English language > Homonyms > Juvenile fiction. Animals > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Presents animals acting out the verbs made from their names, including hogs hogging, slugs slugging, and other creatures demonstrating homographs, words with different meanings that are spelled and pronounced the same.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
ISBN:	9780544391017 0544391012
Author Notes:	Linda Sue Park was born in Urbana, Illinois on March 25, 1960. She received a B.A. in English from Stanford University. After graduating, she worked as a public-relations writer for a major oil company for two years. She obtained advanced degrees in literature from Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland and from the University of London. Before becoming a full-time author, she held numerous jobs including working for an advertising agency, teaching English as a second language to college students, and working as a food journalist. Her first book, Seesaw Girl, was published in 1999. Her other books include The Kite Fighters, Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems), and A Single Shard, which won the 2002 Newbery Medal. She also wrote Storm Warning, which is the ninth book in the 39 Clues series. Her title A Long Walk to Water made the New York Times bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography)