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.

 

There are 400 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2000 by Oxford University Press .

About the Editor: Alan Spooner is the author of a number of dictionaries and reference books for adults and children, including the Oxford Children's Thesaurus, and The Oxford Study Thesaurus. Robert Allen was Editorial Director of Mensa Publications for ten years and a founder of Carlton Books' puzzle list. Published around the world, he has more than two dozen puzzle books to his credit. He lives close to Cambridge.