The book aims to help children improve their wordpower, by increasing their vocabulary and making sure they use words correctly and imaginatively. Areas covered include adjectives, describing people, collective nouns, onomatopoeic words, commonly confused pairs, avoiding over-used words - and much more. Vocabularly Repair Kit is livened up by the usual cast of humorous Repair Kit characters (Zelda, Colin and Steven), and the book also contains interactive elements such as quizzes and tests.

 

This book is part of a book series called Repair Kits .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Hachette Children's Group .

Angela Burt has had a successful career as an English teacher and examiner and now runs a proofreading company. She has written many other books on the correct use of the English language, including Increase Your Word Power and Write with Confidence and Model Everyday Letters. William Vandyck is a practising barrister, who also writes for radio and TV and has written several children's books.