New Yorker writer and poet Alastair Reid spent decades collecting words — strange ones, beautiful ones, words that feel heavy in the mouth (galoshes, mugwump, crumb) and words that feel light (willow, whirr, spinnaker), words that read the same both ways, words that should exist but don't. Ounce Dice Trice is what he did with them, and there is genuinely nothing else like it. Part dictionary, part nonsense, part love letter to the English language, it is illustrated throughout with Ben Shahn's wonderful black-and-white drawings and best read aloud, as noisily as possible. A perfect gift for anyone who has ever loved a word just for the way it sounds.