Genuinely genius in its entirety! Such an adorable concept and totally bewitching with tones of moralistic ambiguity. You glide into the bizarreness with brazen abandonment and am left with the sense of this was how Aesop’s fables were born. The world of language introduces us to words, who are depicted as people in their own way, living and breathing as humans do, apparent by the immediate domestic setting of a teenage word awakening and sharing breakfast and ideals with his parents before heading off to see his friend deaf. The discussion at breakfast emphasises the ongoing debate about humans being a evil necessity for words to exist or if humans should be eradicated. Undertones of an innuendo on existing culture divides and prejudices that to relate to reality. Clever moralistic elements displayed throughout the novel. You can not resist smiling and the divine intelligence of this book. Pearls appear on every page, villains being creatures that are vocal cords sucking up words and creatures searching for words without meaning to gorge on. Then there is characters like rhyme and reason, companions that complete one another like signed and sealed that then create promise and live and learn who create wisdom. This book is just deliciously delightful..a must read for all ages