One of our Books of the Year 2016 | June 2016 Book of the Month
Dictionaries don’t come more fun than this celebration of Roald Dahl, his books and the joy he took in gobblefunking (ie playing with words, inventing new words and meanings). Dahl had an extraordinary understanding of what children like and used onomatopoeia to create words full of sounds that children love to say: lickswishy, wondercrump, phizz-whizzing and of course scrumdiddlyumptious are all featured in this ‘extra—usual’ dictionary.
In fact there are almost 8,000 words, real and made-real-by-Dahl, mostly words featured in his books, some just there for fun, and this is a book to browse happily for hours on end. It will encourage children to invent words themselves and liven up their own writing and with colour illustrations by Quentin Blake on every page this is squiffling in every way.
A new unique Roald Dahl Dictionary from Oxford. This is not an ordinary dictionary. After all, you wouldn't expect an 'Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary' to be ordinary, would you? Lots of dictionaries tell you what an 'alligator' is, or how to spell 'balloon' but they won't explain the difference between a 'ringbeller' and a 'trogglehumper', or say why witches need 'gruntles' eggs' or suggest a word for the shape of a 'Knid'.
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A new unique Roald Dahl Dictionary from Oxford. This is not an ordinary dictionary.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary features in the following genres: Dictionaries, Reference Works, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Funny, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Featured Books for 7+ readers
Hardback. Not Available.
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary was written by Oxford Dictionaries, Susan Rennie, Roald Dahl and published by Oxford University Press
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary has 287 pages
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