Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This colorful dictionary is a treasure trove of illustrated information about early life in colonial America. Topics include: colonial houses, a plantation and its outbuildings, wood and metalworkers and their tools, shops and shopkeepers, transportation, the apothecary, milliner, wigmaker, and many more.
Author
Language
English
Description
"What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more....Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured...are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions...celebrates the beauty of the English...
Language
English
Description
"[T]his delightful book introduces beginning readers to the idea of alphabetical order and prepares them for higher-level dictionaries. Its vivid illustrations and simple example sentences help explain the meanings of over 900 of the words children encounter most often in their reading and in daily life." --Amazon.com.
Author
Language
Español
Description
En El gran libro de mi mundo los niños encontrarán todo aquello que más les gusta de su mundo, así como explicaciones de cuanto quieren saber: cómo se llaman las cosas, qué hacen y adónde van. Con vivos colores, dibujos divertidos, conceptos clave y entretenidos juegos, este es un libro para que lo exploren padres y niños, y al que estos volverán una y otra vez por su propia cuenta. Un regalo perfecto que lo tiene todo para iniciar a los...