Thursday, October 30, 2008

New Book for Rhymers: Nothing Rhymes with Orange...

What do you get when you add a slate of fun and helpful articles on aspects of craft to a good rhyming dictionary? You get Nothing Rhymes with Orange which is a modern update of the classic Capricorn Rhyming Dictionary by children's author (and frequent CWIM contributor) Hope Vestergaard. The book, which will be released November 4, has a great cover and cool new features including:

  • Close, But no Cigar: Near Rhymes vs. True Rhymes
  • Partners in Rhyme: Polishing Your Poetry
  • All Stressed Out? How to Use Meter
  • You Say Poe-tay-toe, I Say Poe-tah-toe: Regional Dialect in Rhyme
  • Nothing Rhymes with Orange: Near Rhymes vs. Non-Rhymes
  • Blinded By The Light: Avoiding Misheard Song Lyrics
From the cover blurb:
Whether you’re a poet looking to complete your rhyming epic, a song-writer composing your next Top 40 hit, a children’s writer penning the perfect board book, or a word geek who loves browsing language references, you’ve found the right book.

Nothing Rhymes with Orange...helps anyone looking for a rhyme find exactly the right word-–right at their fingertips. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover easy-to-reference rhymes, as well as sample phonetic spellings to indicate how each group of words should be pronounced and a rhyming sounds cross-reference to help less phonetic folks navigate. Nothing Rhymes with Orange will help you hone your craft along the way.

Says Perigee editor Meg Leder: “I was so excited to work with Hope, because she took a previously old-fashioned reference and streamlined it for the modern audience, making it very useful for today’s rhymers. Plus, she knows her rhyming stuff! The book was in great hands.”

5 comments:

Marty said...

I have been stuck on page 348 of my novel for about ten months now looking for words that rhyme, thanks for this info.

Kelly Polark said...

Thank you for the recommendation! I'm a rhymer and could always use some extra tips! I will be purchasing that next month!

Boni Ashburn said...

Thanks for the heads-up, Alice :)

Kelli @ writing the waves said...

How cool is that? I'm definitely adding this book to my C-mas list!

Dauntless said...

Thanks for the informative post. Def adding this to the list of books to get!

Cheers

Billy