The Wonderful O

Author - James Thurber ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Audio Cassette Book item from New Millennium Audio was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.

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1) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. "The Wonderful O" is a delightful book for our younger readers about a dastardly group of pirates who invade the island of Ooroo looking for treasure. Oh wow, with a name like Ooroo, this place is just asking for trouble. Seems that Black, the pirate chief, hates the letter O, because when he was a child his mother got stuck in a porthole, and he couldn´t pull her in, so he had to push her out. Poor Moms. And now Black is about to consolidate his capture and takeover of Ooroo by banishing from speech and print every word and name which contains the letter O. So how are we to pronounce Ooroo? Or Otto Ott, whose name comes out sounding like a terminal stutter? Or consider the case of poor Ophelia Oliver, who, when she lost her O´s, vanished from the haunts of men.

Thurber has written a hilarious book showing the pure chas and cnfusin that reign when the language is stripped of its O´s. How can you tell a cat from a cat? Or a bat from a bat? Strip the O from the language and we will all be indeed bgne and webegne. Not to mention losing words like hope, love, valor, and the greatest of all, freedom.

Black may have stripped the language of all its O´s but he can´t break the people´s spirit, and eventually he and his crew hoist anchor and sail away into the sunset, leaving the people and their island with all their O´s intact. Kids will love this book for the hilarious play on words, as well as for the message it gets across. A wonderful bk (oops, I mean book) for youngsters and oldsters alike. How could there be youngsters, or oldsters, or books, if there weren´t any O?¤

2) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. ...THE WONDERFUL O is a charming book. It´s full of wit, wisdom, and social commentary. It´s a great story and plays around with the English language in a most interesting way. This is a book that appeals to both adults and children and would also work well as a text in an upper elementary English class. It´s a great book. Oh, yeah. Has anyone seen BRAVEHEART? There´s a connection between the two.¤

3) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. Pirates come to plunder a small island. When the spokesman tells them they have no treasure "except the blue of the water and the pink of our maidens´ cheeks and lips, and the green of our fields," the pirates don´t believe them and search high and low.

Meanwhile, the captain of the ship, who hates the letter O, issues an edict. "I´ll get rid of the letter O, in upper case and lower...All words in books or signs with an O in them shall have the O erased or painted out. We´ll print new books and paint new signs without an O in them." Thus objects and words with Os are banished from the land forever.

Disaster! Imagine the impact on community life! No houses, cottages or bungalows -- only huts, shacks, sheds, shanties and cabins without logs. No dough for the baker, no gold for the goldsmith, no forge for the blacksmith, no cloth for the tailor, no chocolate for the candymaker. (NOW you´ve gone too far!) No poetry without Os.

Thurber writes, "A man named Otto Ott, when asked his name, could only stutter. Ophelia Oliver repeated hers, and vanished from the haunts of men."

"We can´t tell shot from shoot or hot from hoot," the blacksmith pointed out in a meeting with other townsfolk. "Oft becomes the same as foot, and odd the same as dodo. Something must be done at once or we shall never know what we are saying."

The islanders decide that there are four words with an O that must not be lost. Hope, love and valor are three of them and the fourth is the point of the story.

This is a beautifully written, rhythmic tale. THE WONDERFUL O will appeal to everyone who loves language. The story is a challenge to the imagination of the reader.¤

4) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. I read The Wonderful O years ago as a young adult and find myself recommending the book to others. But, alas, the book is out of stock; I mean, the bk is ut f stck. Please, Mr/Ms Publisher, put this wnderful bk back n the bkshelves. As yu can see, we can´t live fully withut the letter, r withut this wnderful bk.¤

5) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. If there is any way to get this back in to print, I would buy copies for most children I care about.¤

6) Audio Cassette Book The Wonderful O by New Millennium Audio. GRAMMY AWAARD NOMINEE

The Wonderful O tells of a man named Black who despised the letter "O." He deleted it from his language and omitted it from his words. Opals, moonstones, owls and oaks could not possibly be his items of choice. He preferred emeralds, rubies, sapphires and maps. At least they had no "O." Soon he wanted his entire village to omit the letter "O." But the villagers found words they would not do without- HOPE, LOVE, VALOR, and the most important one of all.¤

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