Shadow Puppet Storyteller

The Joy of Reading and Puzzling

         For my son's birthday, my mom and I picked up a copy of Michael Stadther's Alchemist Dar book. Actually, she could tell that I liked it. The illustrations appeared to be deeply colored watercolor pieces reminescent of fantasy illustrator Michael Hague's; of forests with fairies, dogs with moth wings and a half-elven woman.

         I am sucked into the word puzzles, and recently researched to remind myself what some of the word forms are called
Palindrome — A word that reads the same both forwards and backwards
Anagram — A puzzle solution of letters from a single or series of words rescrambled into another word or series of words
Ambigram — A visual presentation of a word which reads one way and by a different orientation, either as the same word or a new word; A remarkable form of this is when an antonym of the original word is formed. (ex. Life — Death)

Look into it — and read a book to a child.