Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.

Teaches new words to very young children, with the picture on each page showing a different perspective of the one preceding it.

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 are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions...

Welcome to WordWorld, where words come alive! Join the WordFriends on comic adventures as they face challenges that can only be resolved by building the right word. In WordWorld, children are encouraged to put letters together to spell words that magically morph into the objects they represent. Includes 16 episodes.

Michael loves collecting words, especially those that are unusual, and knowing that one of his new words is naughty does not stop him from sharing it with his friends at school.

In this book, the sound of the special vowel teams aw is found in each word.