There are 80 pages in this book. This is a picture dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). A picture dictionary uses illustrations to explain the meanings of words. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Nicholas Tucker is the author of nine books about children, childhood and reading, including The Child and the Book, (Cambridge University Press, 1981 and 1990). He has also written six books for children, broadcasts frequently and reviews in the national press. He lives in Lewes, East Sussex and sometimes finds himself reading aloud the same books to some of his eight grandchildren as he once did to their mothers and father. Roger McGough is a renowned performance poet, with many collections of well-loved children's poetry to his name. Debi Gliori has written and illustrated more than 40 children's titles. In the UK she has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal.