The Big Orange Splot is a picture book that makes good use of colors. Orange, for example.

The Yggyssey. "The Journey is Interesting to say the least."

Letter to Weekend Edition:
Finally, many were delighted by our reading with Daniel Pinkwater of excerpts from "Ounce, Dice, Trice," which introduces children to the joy of words like frangipani, merdo and fussbudget.

Take this grandiloquent response from Pat Ramberg of White Bear Lake, Minnesota: What an exhuberous (ph), flumongus(ph), flamingus(ph) and dodolis(ph) obsorbitory(ph) excretion Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater take the listener through while reviewing children's literature. They are a national treasure, as is Jimmy Durante and his tunalodious(ph) singing of "I'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book."