Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195159055
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195159055
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195159055
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
Weird, Wild & Wonderful
Author: James Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913074739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poet James Carter selects his favourite and best poems, including many classroom classics, with pictures by an award-winning children's illustrator. Welcome to the weird, wild and wonderful world of James Carter! Expect to hear the moon speak, explore a magic wood and play air guitar. You'll meet wolves, elephants and a dung beetle; you'll get close to a gorilla and sing a lullaby to a woolly mammoth; you might even meet an alien in a library. Packed with James Carter's most popular and requested poems, plus 8 brand new poems, this is an important collection from one of the top children's poets writing today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913074739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poet James Carter selects his favourite and best poems, including many classroom classics, with pictures by an award-winning children's illustrator. Welcome to the weird, wild and wonderful world of James Carter! Expect to hear the moon speak, explore a magic wood and play air guitar. You'll meet wolves, elephants and a dung beetle; you'll get close to a gorilla and sing a lullaby to a woolly mammoth; you might even meet an alien in a library. Packed with James Carter's most popular and requested poems, plus 8 brand new poems, this is an important collection from one of the top children's poets writing today.
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886032
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886032
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
"Being Weird Is a Wonderful Thing"
Author: Kathryn Petras
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523515341
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way. Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It’s time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, “what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it’s like to march to the beat of a different drummer. Every statement is a powerful, positive reminder that to live successfully is to be completely unapologetically you. “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s OK.” —Laverne Cox “All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.” —Shel Silverstein “I am different, not less” —Temple Grandin “The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.” —Ai Weiwei
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523515341
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way. Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It’s time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, “what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it’s like to march to the beat of a different drummer. Every statement is a powerful, positive reminder that to live successfully is to be completely unapologetically you. “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s OK.” —Laverne Cox “All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.” —Shel Silverstein “I am different, not less” —Temple Grandin “The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.” —Jhumpa Lahiri “Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.” —Ai Weiwei
Weird and Wonderful
Author: Andrea Stulman Dennett
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814718868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814718868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Weird & Wonderful
Author:
Publisher: Golden Age of Illustration
ISBN: 9781595833853
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of scenes from various childrens books.
Publisher: Golden Age of Illustration
ISBN: 9781595833853
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of scenes from various childrens books.
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine.
Author: Earl Brechlin
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781944762803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
Publisher: Islandport Press
ISBN: 9781944762803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
More Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195170573
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195170573
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.
Strange But True!
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465449078
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465449078
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.
Weird and Wonderful Creations
Author: Zondervan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780310731245
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weird and Wonderful Creatures is a nonfiction Made By God bind up, with photos and facts showing children the wonders of God's creation---aligned with the Common Core Standards.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780310731245
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weird and Wonderful Creatures is a nonfiction Made By God bind up, with photos and facts showing children the wonders of God's creation---aligned with the Common Core Standards.