ISBN-10: 0192779176
ISBN-13: 9780192779175

Kay Woodward, Quentin Blake, and Roald Dahl

Be inspired to write with Roald Dahl’s beastly words.

Every child who loves Roald Dahl’s stories knows all about the diabolical giants in Giant Country, how beastly Miss Trunchbull is and how unpleasant it would be to eat a slugburger, but have they spotted all the clever ways Roald Dahl uses language in his brilliant stories? Have they discovered how to write about animals and people in a way that makes their own stories wild?

Discover a world of words
This little book brings together Roald Dahl’s made up words as well as lots of real ones and gives ideas and techniques to inspire young writers. Children will discover onomatopoeic words like snort and snarl, metaphors and puns, how to blend words together to make their own new words and how animal vocabulary works for describing both people and creatures, as well as how names like the Bonecruncher and Mr Wormwood can tell us so much about the characters.

Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Illustrated throughout with Quentin Blake’s artwork, this book is part of a four-book set which, through the magic of Roald Dahl’s writing, will help to build children’s confidence with language while having mischievous fun!

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Susan Rennie, Quentin Blake, and Roald Dahl

Discover how to be rotsome with Roald Dahl’s mischievous words.

Get ready to be goose-gruggled and fluckgungled with disgusterous, rotsome and repulsant words (and much more). You can have fun with Roald Dahl’s language and the brilliant Quentin Blake’s illustrations while discovering how language works in this little hardback book. Inspired by the World’s No 1 storyteller, this book will give you all you need to start learning how language works – make up your own words, have fun and be bold with words!

Now in a new format, we have gathered together Roald Dahl’s most rotsome language as well as a raft of snippets of serious language facts for cheeky chiddlers. This little hardback book is full of vermicious tips, definitions and examples from the World’s No.1 storyteller.

Discover a world of words
Dive inside Roald Dahl’s mischievous world of magic and cook up a langwitch storm like no other! Not only will you be fluent in gobblefunk, you will also learn how to create your very own words whilst having marvellous amounts of fun!

For young readers and writers everywhere
Brimming with super langwitch facts, this book is the perfect introduction for cheeky chiddlers aged 7-10 to understand how language works. Along with enchanting tips, definitions and examples to help children create their own stories!

Illustrated by Quentin Blake
This fantastic little hardback edition is jam-packed full of Quentin Blake’s brilliant illustrations! Re-immerse yourself in Roald Dahl’s most magical tales, including ‘The Witches’ and ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’

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A fully illustrated alphabetical first dictionary for 4–5-year-olds.

The Oxford Very First Dictionary introduces children aged 4+ to the features of a dictionary in an appealing way.

The dictionary has over 300 familiar words, each with a simple definition and an illustration which reinforces the definition.

Each page is clearly laid out so it is easy to pick out the main features – the alphabet down the side of the page, the letter of the page you are on in red, and an illustrated opening letter – A shows a juicy apple, B shows some buzzing bees.

There is also a fully illustrated section at the end with vocabulary on topics related to first learning, e.g. colours, numbers, shapes, days and months, as well as a list of common words and a simple introduction to grammar with a list of verbs or ‘doing words’.

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The Oxford School Dictionary & Thesaurus combines a comprehensive dictionary at the top of the page with a companion thesaurus at the bottom, for the upper primary student moving into secondary school. The dictionary contains clear simple definitions, up-to-date example sentences, and support on spelling, grammar and punctuation. The thesaurus provides thousands of up-to-date synonyms, arranged by the meaning that is closest to that of the headword, instead of alphabetically, to enable users to select the most accurate alternative.

Having the dictionary and thesaurus entry on the same page makes it a very easy-to-use one-volume reference tool. It is powered by the Oxford Children’s Corpus, a unique electronic database of millions of words of writing for children.

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This is a real thesaurus for all chiddlers and even some adult human beans. It features hundreds of spliffling words used and created by the world’s best storyteller, Roald Dahl, together with useful synonyms, related words and phrases, idioms and word origins.

Cleverly organised into phizz-whizzing themes, from vegitibbles to outer space, it is easy to find new and interesting words while you are writing. Be inspired by the special WRITING HUT pages to craft your own brain-boggling creatures and characters, just like Roald Dahl.

This mischievous thesaurus captures 51ºÚÁÏÍø’s language expertise and mixes it with the magic of Roald Dahl. Whether telling curdbloodling stories or imagining bugswallop, you will soon be using the Oxford Roald Dahl Thesaurus as your golden ticket to dream!

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