The Ladybird Illustrated Dictionary


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This illustrated dictionary contains some 4000 words and abbreviations, focusing on everyday words relevant to children.




My First Ladybird Dictionary


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If you want to find out what a word means, or you want to expand your vocabulary, My First Ladybird Dictionary is your essential school reference book. Packed with over 1,000 definitions, the dictionary is easy to use and full of colourful illustrations.




Ladybird Pocket Dictionary


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Reading, writing, talking - we use words all the time. This dictionary is perfect when you want to find out the meaning of a word, how to spell it or what kind of word it is. Helpful features: 4000 entries This symbol !! helps with awkward words that sound the same but have completely different meanings and spellings Lots of 'school' worlds and words that will help with projects Colourful illustrations




Ladybird Im Ready to Look and Say!


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This Ladybird picture dictionary I'm Ready to Look and Say forms part of the Ladybird I'm Ready series. It has colourful art and offers opportunities for vocabulary building as well as introducing key topics for children starting nursery or school. There are fascinating scenes on every double page spread of this vibrant picture-word book. There are different themes such as 'In my home' and 'Places I go' with carefully drawn objects clearly labelled within their context. Some of the contexts include 'In the kitchen', 'In my bedroom', 'At a party', 'At the zoo' and 'At school'. Environmental sounds have been added to the scenes, which forms part of Phonics Phase 1 in early learning. Children are asked to look for objects in the picture and name them and are encouraged to discuss their routine in their own personal environment. This Ladybird book will spark the imagination and prompt discussion. A perfect introduction to words and sounds.




My First Ladybird Thesaurus


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If you want to find a new way of saying something, or if you can't remember the word you need, My First Ladybird Thesaurusis your essential school reference guide. Easy to use, and packed with fascinating words and expressions, this handy book is a fantastic aid to creative writing.




The Ladybird Picture Dictionary


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Ladybird I'm Ready To Spell Thesaurus


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My First Thesaurus, part of Ladybird's popular I'm Ready... early learning series, is an essential first reference book for primary school children and is perfect for school work and homework help. With colourful illustrations throughout, the thesaurus is packed with over 1,000 common words that children will come across, with a comprehensive range of synonyms to help with creative writing, and examples of the word used in a sentence. There is also a helpful section on how to best use the thesaurus and what it is for. It also contains lists of themed words at the back of the book, perfect for quick reference. These include animals, bugs, the body, food, sea, shapes, sports, vehicles, weather and many more! Look out for My First Dictionary, also from Ladybird.




The Ladybird Thesaurus


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Oxford Dictionary of English


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The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.




A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature


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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.