An updated edition of the essential bestselling dictionary for children in grades 3-5, this is an ideal resource for school or home with more than 36,000 entries and approximately 900 vibrant, colorful illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. Designed to help students and educators meet Common Core Standards.
All new edition of a dictionary designed for people withlimited English language skills. Great for ESL students. More than36,000 entries with concise, easy-to-understand definitions. Morethan 20,000 usage examples with over 400 detailed line drawings,many revised. Also includes word histories, biographical names andgeographical names.
This thesaurus is designed for high-school students, and containsover 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic phrases, and related andcontrasted words. Brief definitions describe shared meanings, andthere are abundant usage examples
Turn an in-flight magazine into an engaging game, transform your mid-flight snack into an instant work of art: with 52 ways to keep kids busy, happy, and occupied in the air or at the boarding terminal, this revised and updated deck is the traveling child's essential carry-on item.
The world's most curious monkey investigates new words in thislively picture dictionary for young children. Curious George'sDictionary is an engaging picture dictionary specially designed forchildren from preschool through first grade. Both entertaining andeducationally sound, it features charming illustrations andreflects recent research in early childhood literacy, setting itapart from other picture dictionaries. The main part of thedictionary is an A-Z section containing approximately six hundredwords, six words to a page. Each word is illustrated with afull-color drawing, most of which have been created for this bookby the popular illustrator Mary O'Keefe Young. More than half theillustrations include a sample sentence that puts the word in afamiliar context. A four-page illustrated story at the front of thebook shows George learning how to look up words in his dictionary,drawing children in while introducing them to dictionary skills. Atthe end of the book, seven one- to two-page illustrations presentgr
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guidepublisher* How to be a World Explorer will teach you all you need toknow about venturing through all the landscapes on Earth. How doyou cope with extreme cold? How do you find water in the wild? Howdo you escape from quicksand? How do you navigate by the stars? Howdo you build an igloo? How do you fight a bear? It's all here! Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet hasbecome the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooksto every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winningwebsite, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, children'sbooks, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's missionis to enable curious travellers to experience the world and totruly get to the heart of the places where they travel. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner inFavorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no o
The best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series returns with this "extreme" follow-up to the Junior Edition. Packed with funny, kid friendly instructions for the most extreme situations such as how to handle an encounter with a tarantula, how to navigate by the stars, how to build a snow cave, and more!
Lonely Planet's fun series about places far from home, written with the perfect pitch for young Lively stories spooky histories and fun facts designed to entice a whole new generation of world A blend of striking photos, quirky graphics and illustrations bring the destinations to life