The Spy Meeting

The Spy Meeting is a humorous story staring spymaster Mickey Maloney.  On his way to a spy meeting, Mickey picks up a crowd of people spying on him!  Happily, the Big Wig at Spy House says more spies are needed and tells the crowd to “get spying!”.  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  A variety of sentence types are used.   An email format is shown and text appears in some illustrations.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, hyphens, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning. 

The contraction he’s is used.  Singular/plural pairs include spy/spies, fly/flies, flea/fleas, and hat/hats.  The homonyms blew/blue, sea/see, and to/too appear.  Interest words include slinking, spying, whispering, stomped, creeping, and wiggly.

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