The Oxford Children's Thesaurus

by Alan Spooner (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.24

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $4.18

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.24

  The Oxford Children's Thesaurus is a new edition with completely new, up-to-date text to take young readers into the new millennium! Specially written for this age group and an ideal companion to The Oxford Children's Dictionary , its major features are: - 70 000 synonyms, similar and related words - Headword entries in colour - Headwords and examples carefully chosen to tie in with those in Children's Dictionary - Extensive treatment of core vocabulary - Naturalness of examples supported by British National Corpus - Information organized clearly with the most useful words given first - Concentrates on the main function of a thesaurus: not to explain hard words but to give alternatives for familiar words - Meets the new school curriculum requirements - Extensively trialled and tested in schools - Durable sewn binding