With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections, this updated dictionary is an ideal spelling resource for students. It offers more than 150 memory tricks to correct commonly misspelled words, and clearly explains general spelling rules (and their exceptions).

Now revised with up-to-date explanations of more than 700 everyday American idioms and their origins, this dictionary contains entries that are amusing as well as educational.

This lively, readable word-play book will enliven a language arts curriculum or intrigue those children with an appetite for riddles and language.--"School Library Journal." Illustrations.

Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated. Full color.

Introduces and explains action idioms and their origins with comical illustrations that lend a literal interpretation.

A collection of more than 70 riddles features homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation. Full color.