The Oxford Children's Dictionary

by Alan Spooner (Editor), Alan Spooner (Editor), Robert Allen (Primary Contributor), John Weston (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $26.61

  This is a new edition with completely, up-to-date text to take young readers into 2000. Specially written for 8 year olds and upwards, its main features are: 20,000 headwords in colour; 150 colour illustrations; extensive coverage of core vocabulary; information on word origins given; written in a clear style with definitions children can understand and with example sentences playing a key role; and naturalness of examples supported by British National Corpus. It meets the school curriculum requirements and has been extensively trialled and tested in schools.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.33

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.19

  Fully revised and updated, this illustrated dictionary contains 29,000 entries, complete with example sentences and parts of speech that are given to reflect the teachings of the National Curriculum. Alan Spooner is the editor of Oxford Minireference Thesaurus and the Oxford Children's Thesaurus . John Weston has worked on the Oxford Senior Dictionary .