Lettuce sieve we can sail in our sieve to the land of punny puns! Join us for this punny episode and hear opunions and advice from none other than the 2017 O’Henry Pun Champion – Southpaw Jones! He’ll be sharing some tips and tricks for how you can be punny too, and we have Buttons & Figs kids, Sophia and Angelo, sharing some groan worthy puns they found at the library. Be sure to include your podcast listening as part of your summer reading program! For more reading ideas and wordplay punnery visit www.buttonsandfigs.com

Listen to episode #28 – Summer at Imagination Inn and see if you can tell which one is Chloe’s and which one is Lila’s…

School’s almost out, summer’s almost here, let’s sail away in our sieve to the land of….oh no, I think we’re lost! Quick, IMAGINE a place – a castle, a cabin, a resort or an inn! Wait, no worries, no fear, Nancy Willard is here and William Blake’s Inn is just beyond that bend. On this episode Nancy Willard inspires us to let our imaginations soar, Buttons & Figs kids imagine places for summer fun, and we’ll share ways for you to have summer reading and listening fun at your library. #KidsListenSummer #LibrariesRock For more reading ideas and wordplay fun visit www.buttonsandfigs.com

Jump aboard our sieve with this army of ants, troop of baboons, bunch of bananas, swarm of bees and litter of kittens as they set sail to the land of collective nouns. On this episode we’ll define collective noun, hear original collective noun poems read by a bevy of Buttons & Figs kids and we’ll find out whether Inspector Fig solves the case about a misuse of a collective noun…Dunnn-da-dunt-dunt-duuuuun. for more wordplay fun visit www.buttonsandfigs.com #buttonsandfigs #wordplay #techplay #kidcasts #kidslisten #podcasts

Stop your dilly-dallying and jump aboard….we’re sailing our sieve to the land of Ricochet Words! On this episode we’ll explain how to play with ricochet words, we’ll stop in to visit Shim-Sham the Shoe Man and our Buttons & Figs kids travel from Wibbleton to Wobbleton, making up their own ricochet words along the way. Subscribe to play with words at www.buttonsandfigs.com