Author: Steven Schnur
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: acrostic, alphabet, autumn
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-08-18
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395770432
ISBN-13: 9780395770436

One brief acrostic poem for each letter of the alphabet from acorn to zero follows the fall season from end of summer to chilly conclusion.

Author: Steven Schnur
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: acrostic, alphabet, spring
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-03-22
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0395822696
ISBN-13: 9780395822692

In this companion book to "Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic," the pleasures of spring, from April to Zenith, are captured in twenty-six short poems. New grass and daffodils, hopscotch and kite flying, kittens under the porch and baby birds under the eaves are the subjects of Steven Schnur’s evocative verses and Leslie Evans’s luminous linoleum-cut illustrations. When read vertically, each poem reveals a playful acrostic, making every handsomely designed page a double treat for the eye as well as a joyous tribute to the season.

Author: Anne Brown
Publisher: Puzzlewright
Keywords: mensa, puzzles, acrostic, challenging
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-09-28
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1402705824
ISBN-13: 9781402705823

They look like crosswords, but don’t be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn’t stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, "Rawhide," and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you r

Author: Anne Brown
Publisher: Puzzlewright
Keywords: mensa, puzzles, acrostic, astounding
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1402725418
ISBN-13: 9781402725418

Acrostic puzzles lift word game fans beyond crosswords to the next level. Just dust off your memories of great writers and philosophers, and add today’s movie stars and sports heroes. Each of the 40 puzzles features three simple steps, starting with treating the clues just like crosswords. Next, you fill in the empty boxes with words that complete a quote from the book. Fortunately, you can figure out answers you don’t even know from the clues provided, so the more you play, the more informed you become! Finally, you read the first letters of the answers to read the author of the q

Author: Thomas H. Middleton
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: puzzles, volume, acrostic, times, york, new
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-04-20
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0312284101
ISBN-13: 9780312284107

50 puzzles from the New York Times] by Thomas H. MiddletonNew York Times puzzles are America’s Favorites Millions of puzzle fans know that the New York Times is the gold standard in puzzling. Here is the next installment of 50 Acrostic puzzles, which appear every other week in the Sunday Times.

Authors:The New York Times, Will Shortz,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: new, times, york, acrostics, pages, challenging, puzzles, acrostic, volume
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 031230949X
ISBN-13: 9780312309497

Featuring quotations from Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many more, this collection of fifty of the Times’s famous, literary Sunday acrostics marks their first appearance in book form.