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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When all of the words escape from the dictionary, it's up to Noah Webster to restore alphabetical order in this supremely wacky picture book that celebrates language. Words have secret lives. On a quiet afternoon the words escape the dictionary (much to the consternation of Mr. Noah Webster) and flock to Hollywood for a huge annual event-Lexi-Con. Liberated from the pages, words get together with friends and relations in groups including an onomatopoeia...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Do you occasionally misuse or misunderstand certain words? Do you sometimes find yourself at a loss to express exactly what you mean? Are you tired of having people seemingly talk 'above' you? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary is the perfect solution. Millions of people have improved their academic performance, job skills, and self-esteem, just by spending fifteen minutes a day completing...
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Words are everywhere. But do you know where your favorite words come from? Maybe they plop to the ground from high up in the sky! Or maybe workers piece them together in big factories. Or maybe they come from a one-of-a-kind word-maker . . . but who could that be? Vivid letter-filled illustrations explore imaginative ways words are made as this book shares the secret to creating new words . . ."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Adams Media, a division of F + W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A dictionary of "big and intellectual" words"--
The most compendious collection of words for aspiring scholars, this book helps you hold your own in intellectual discourse. Featuring 2,400 sophisticated, obscure, and obtuse terms, each page provides you with the definitions you need to know to lock academic horns with the clerisy. From antebellum and eleemosynary to impasto and putative, you will quickly master hundreds of erudite phrases that will...
28) Words
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Offers over three hundred words paired with illustrated scenes related to them intended to help young readers puzzle out their meanings and think creatively about language and images.
30) Bees and wasps
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
What do bees and wasps eat? What types of nests do they make? How do bees make honey? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more about the fascinating lives of bees and wasps
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Smell the daisies is the third book in the Big Words Small Stories series. Each book in this series features features five multi-syllabic words that are fun to say and use, in five quirky short stories. In this book, we meet the adorable Oleander and her pet salamander, Sally Mander. Oleander likes to keep busy, and Sally Mander likes to take it easy. As in the first two books in the series, the pair are visited by the Sprinkle Fairy and her helpers,...
35) Cow takes a bow
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
When Brown Cow visits the circus, she puts on a surprise performance. She slips, trips, drops things and loses her hat - but the ringmaster is thrilled!
37) Bravo!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this bilingual story that introduces simple vocabulary words, a little girl and boy pick up seemingly unconnected objects on their walk around the yard, providing a surprise for the reader.
Author
Series
Penguin young readers volume Level 2 (Progressing reader)
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nina's ballerina class is going to have a dance show called "Night Sky." Eric is going to be the moon and Nina is going to be one of the stars that twinkle around him. Nina tells her friend Anne about it, but she misunderstands Nina and thinks that Nina is going to be "The Star" of the show, not "A star" in the night sky.
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world--Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer...
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