Poplollies & Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words Along with Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers: A Compendium of Body Language

If you enjoy learning about language then this is the book for you. My son's 3rd grade teacher made wonderful, fun and informative lesson plans using Poplolly. I have granchildren I am going to teach about these wonderful strange old words. They like to make up words as did theirDad. I'm hoping they will have fun with this book. I love reading it again.

This book is terrific fun. If you're a logomaniac like I am, you won't be disappointed.

My father bought this for me years ago, since then lost it. I had to get it back!!!! I love words😀

This a great book on the English language. As a writer it has been a great source for character dialogue. It is one of most interesting books I have read. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading a book on history, language is part of history.

A wonderful book for those who celebrate language.

What FUN!

Poplollies and Bellibones-My friends and family collect and share words and this a book that's worth hours of discussion and joy. A mix of words, some of them with very precise meanings that don't have a modern equivalent in common use, others more that are more general. It also has a bit of the history of some of the words including the etymology and time period.The illustrations are very 70s style and the words are placed in a narrative context with notes about what each italicized word means.Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers by the same author has the origin of many phrases in use today, as well as more historical words. It's a fun mix of things relating to body parts in rich, descriptive and fun language.