Take away the A and The Oulipo Compendium

'Take away the A' by Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo

This book is fun!  The premise behind it is a word game.  Can you take away a letter from a word to make another?  For example if you take C from Chair you get her.  If you take S from She you get He. 
The authors have managed to find an example for every letter in the alphabet.  
(there are some examples below) and create amusing sentences out of them.

This could be a great challenge for your class - perhaps as a game to play with their spelling lists.

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When writing about this book I remembered another book I have on my shelf.  The 'Oulipo Compendium' edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie. 

If you are unfamiliar with the work of Oulipo you can find out more here and here.

"Take away the A" feels like an Oulipo-type constraint like a Lipogram or a Tautogram. 

I'll blog some more about Oulipo over the summer.