Books by Oxford Dictionaries

A dictionary of real and invented words used by the world's best storyteller. The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary reveals what they mean, where they came from and how he used them in his stories. It will inspire you to choose and use each word brilliantly in your own writing - wheth...er it's a real word, a Roald Dahl word or your own made-up one!
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Poetry and creative writing is fun with the Oxford Children's Rhyming Dictionary, in the classroom and at home. With inspiring poems by John Foster, quirky illustrations and engaging creative writing activities, this alphabetical rhyming dictionary gives over 3000 rhyming words t...o help children to write their own poems, riddles, and nonsense verse.
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The Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Dictionary is the essential reference book for the test in May 2013. In full colour, it has easy-to-use rules and help, plus an alphabetical list of the tricky, and everyday, words including those most commonly misspelt, all b...acked by analysis of Oxford's unique database of children's writing.
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The Oxford Children's Maths and Science Words includes more than 600 first science and maths words, as well as computing words, explained clearly and in alphabetical order. Matched to the curriculum, it is full of colourful illustrations and simple definitions to make learning ne...w words fun and easy.
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This is a phizz-whizzing thesaurus of words invented by No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl and hundreds of real synonyms gathered together in themes. It's jammed full of words, Quentin Blake's illustrations, and language snippets to inspire children to write about anything - from human... beans to witches, to outerspace, to food, giants and more!
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