Review of
CDC? By
William Steig ISBN 0374410240
Five out of five stars
This set of
acronym-like puzzles requires significant thought and some mispronunciation if
you are to solve them. The puzzles have the form of an image and textual clue
constructed from a few letters. For example, the puzzle on the cover has a man
standing next to a boy near the ocean and he is saying “CDC?” If you mispronounce
the “D,” the statement becomes “See da sea?”
Another example
has a likeness of English king Henry the Eighth with the caption, “N-R-E D 8.”
Again, finding the solution requires a bit of mispronunciation. While English
teachers may be a bit appalled at these puzzles, they are fun and challenging,
a bit of exercise for the brain cells.
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