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Junior Illustrated Thesaurus

By James Maclaine
Series: Illustrated Dictionaries and Thesauruses
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Junior Illustrated Thesaurus by James Maclaine is a vibrant resource designed for young readers to expand their vocabulary. Packed with colourful illustrations and engaging explanations, this book helps children discover synonyms and improve their language skills in an enjoyable way. Suitable for curious minds, it encourages exploration of words and meaning in everyday language.
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You might enjoy this engaging and colourful thesaurus if you're looking to expand a child's vocabulary while sparking their imagination. The book is thoughtfully designed with lively illustrations and easy-to-understand entries, making it perfect for young readers and writers eager to explore the richness of language.

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A fantastic resource to help children boost their word power, both when writing and talking. Words and their synonyms are grouped in over 90 topics, including, for example, animal words, noisy words, fairytale words, jobs, sports, monsters, weather and lots more.

Children can choose a topic relevant for their story, or look for a word in the Word Finder index. Colourful pictures illustrate many of the word meanings, and there are writing tips, word games, and internet links to other carefully selected writing resources online.

Junior Illustrated Thesaurus by James Maclaine is a valuable tool for young learners to enhance their vocabulary and enjoy the process of discovering new words.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409534969

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Various
  • Illustrated by Various

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 171.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 128

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational James Maclaine Series: Illustrated Dictionaries and Thesauruses

About the Author

James Maclaine has written books about meerkats, general knowledge and manners, come up with countless drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. His Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is the book that he wishes he'd had as a child.

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