I love how the Jamberry by Bruce Degan (2000) plays with the phonology of English as tells the tale of a boy and a bear picking berries. The text shows how parts of words can be manipulated, which is important in understanding English morphology. For example, “Hatberry Shoeberry in my canoeberry.” As I dictate this quote, voice recognition on my device doesn’t recognize the made-up words. It doesn't process speech with the flexibly of a human. “Three berry Four berry Hayberry Strawberry Finger and pawberry My berry, your berry” is such fun word play! I picked up an unusual copy of this book. The jamberry company logo appears on the cover. The first page is a photograph of the three women who founded the company, with the logo again, and the slogan "together let’s make life beautiful." None of the books listed on Amazon or the Harper Collins website has the jamboree logo on the cover. The copyright page of this book reads 1983 and 2000 by Bruce Deegan, published by Harper Collins. a Google search indicates that Jamboree was a company founded in 2011 that folded in 2018. The ISBN number of this particular copy is unrecognized in an online ISBN search. I wonder how this edition came to be.
