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Name: The Game of Words

Author: Willard R. Espy
Year: 1971
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Winner of the Washington State Book Award in 1973.

The author of An Almanac of Words at Play presents a collection of puns, tongue-twisters, and spoonerisms that are accompanied by humorous black-and-white line illustrations.
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