Rhyming and Spelling Dictionary by Ruth Thomson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
The book supports both the writing and spelling objectives of the National Literacy Strategy at KS2 and should appeal to parents keen to help their children extend their vocabulary and develop their writing skills.
Roald Dahl's Scrumptious and Delumptious Words by Kay Woodward
$17.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
A little book full of words and phrases all about food from the delunctuous to the yucksome! Packed with toothsome wordy snippets and fun ideas from Roald Dahl's brilliant stories and characters, it is the perfect inspiration gift to help children get writing creatively and build their confidence with w ...Show more
Star Wars The Complete Visual Dictionary New Edition by Pablo Hidalgo
$70.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
This comprehensive visual dictionary is the perfect Star Warsbook for getting to know the galaxy far, far away. Packed with more than 1,500 stunning images, it showcases major and minor characters including Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, creatures, vehicles, weapons, props, and items of tech in unpar ...Show more
Synonyms and Antonyms by ed
$25.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Collins Dictionary of
This handy paperback has been developed using Collins Word Web, an unparalleled and constantly updated 2.5-billion-word database of lexical data, so you can be sure you're up to speed with the very latest developments in language.Even writers of the most coruscating prose get stumped occasionally. So wh ...Show more
The Curious Dictionary (Word Hunters #1) by Nick Earls
$17.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Word Hunters
From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all.Lexi and Al Hunter are twins with almost nothing in common - except their parents and their birthday! At school Lexi hangs with her friends, while Al hides in the lib ...Show more
The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book ...Show more
The Encyclopedia of STEM Words by Jenny Jacoby
$29.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
Age range 9 to 12. Do you know your Algorithms from your Brownian motion? How about your Coprolites? Discover these words and more in this illustrated STEM encyclopedia! Organised in alphabetical order and each term beautifully illustrated with humour and charm, these 100 essential concepts will fascina ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases by Jennifer Speake
$39.95 NZD
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Containing over 8,000 entries, this fascinating dictionary is the authoritative guide to foreign words and phrases used in contemporary British and American English. Drawn from over 40 languages, entries provide details of the history of each word or phrase, including language of origin, spelling varian ...Show more
The Raupo Phrasebook of Modern Māori by Scotty Morrison
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori
The user-friendly guide for all New Zealanders.The Raupo Phrasebook of Modern Maoriis the most up-to-date, versatile and relevant resource for using Maori language in everyday life. Whether you're a novice or emergent speaker of te reo Maori, or a complete beginner, you'll learn useful phrases for- The ...Show more
The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand English by H.W. Orsman
$49.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
When it was first published as the Heinemann New Zealand Dictionary in 1979, this dictionary was acclaimed as ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂour first home-grown dictionary, complete with all the words we shock or mystify the world with.ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàA second edition was published in 1989; now renam ...Show more
The Reed Pocket Dictionary of New Zealand English by H.W. Orsman
$31.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
Revised and condensed from The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand English  shortlisted for the Montana Book Awards 2002  this pocket dictionary includes all of the words in common usage in New Zealand (updated to include the latest terms from the information age), presented and defined in everyday langu ...Show more
What a Wonderful Phrase: A collection of amazing idioms from around the world by Nicola Edwards
$27.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries
This beautifully illustrated and witty book is filled to the brim with curious phrases from around the world. Travel from country to country and learn the history behind interesting and unusual idioms, and the greater cultures which shaped them.From the endearing French phrase “to be a blue flower” to ...Show more