<p><strong>Gertrude and her girlfriends get their game on in this supremely sweet story. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Forever friends find fun in crafting creative contests.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Author Lisa Baker and her cousin Anna Marie Smith team up to create a story of three girls and how they love coming up with games. They decided to merge their love of collective nouns or animal groupings like a herd of cows with their newfound knowledge of alliteration where the first letter of each word is the same.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(13 12 12 1)>Lisa Baker's loveable alliterative literature provides a warm welcome to the world of wordplay. Enjoy reading about Gertrude's globetrotting game during which the friends find fun in coining collective terms. This book carries on the centuries-old tradition of giving groups such glorious names as a flamboyance of flamingos or a bike of bees. With the perfect pictures to illustrate the imaginings of the trio of tykes the following is to be read and reveled in by children and adults alike. -Rob Watts</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(13 12 12 1)>At the end of the story unscramble the fourteen letters to create a two-word phrase and scan the QR code in the back of the book for a freebie with the correct answer. </span></p><p><br></p><p>-Helps with pre-reading skills with rhyming text encouraging children to predict what the word will be (similar to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book)</p><p>-Encourages creativity</p><p>-Introduces literature terms</p><p>-Introduces geography concepts</p><p>-Interactive</p><p><br></p>