The Dictionary of Difficult Words - With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!

A family trivia game based around a dictionary of challenging and interesting lexical choices. Set to chime with the trend towards the dictionary format as exhibited in the popularity of "The Lost Words".

About the author

Jane Solomon is a lexicographer based in Oakland, California. She spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She's a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. Jane has a twin sister who is also a lexicographer.Louise Lockhart is an illustrator living in an old mill in a small town in England. She spends her days creating designs from little paper cut-outs and line drawings. Her books include The Dictionary of DifficultWords (published in 2019 by Frances Lincoln Children's Books) and her clients include: Heal's, Mini Boden, Flow Magazine, Anthropologie, The Independent, Anorak Magazine, Mollie Makes Magazine, Donna Wilson, Graniph, Little Otsu, and Liberty.

Summary

Test your knowledge of the English language with the Dictionary of Difficult Words.

Additional text

'Highly recommended'

Product details

• Authors: Jane Solomon, Solomon Jane
• Assisted by: Louise Lockhart (Illustration), Lockhart Louise (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 70
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2019
• EAN: 9781786038104
• ISBN: 978-1-78603-810-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 256 mm x 310 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 934 g
• Illustrations: 112
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Quiz, puzzle; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / Vocabulary & Spelling, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Reference / Dictionaries, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Games & Activities / Word Games, Hobbies, quizzes & games (Children's / Teenage), Educational: English language & literacy, Dictionaries, school dictionaries (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage reference: Dictionaries and Languages