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The Return of the Word Spy

The Return of the Word Spy

A Funny and Fantastic Voyage into Language, Grammar and Beyond...

by Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/05/2010

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From the beginning of time, the Word Spy has been creeping down hallways, hiding in shadows and journeying through different lands to discover everything there is to know about the English language. In her first book, The Word Spy, she shared with us the secrets she'd learnt about English, from the first alphabet in 4000 BC right up to the tricks of modern texting. In The Return of the Word Spy she continues the fascinating journey through language, with chapters on language families, how we learn to speak, grammar and written forms of communication. In an accessible, engaging style, the Word Spy explains the meaning of nouns, verbs, pronouns, 'dead' languages, word origins and other wordy wonders.
ISBN:
9780670073542
9780670073542
Category:
Educational: English language & literacy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-05-2010
Publisher:
PENGUIN BOOKS AUSTRALIA
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
268
Dimensions (mm):
191x135x26mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Ursula Dubosarsky

Ursula was born and grew up in Sydney in a family of writers, and wanted to be a writer from the age of six. She is now the author of over 50 books for children and young adults and her work is published all over the world.

She has won several national literary awards, including the Victorian, Queensland and South Australian State Awards for literature, and has also won the NSW Premier's Literary Award a record five times, more than any other writer in the history of the awards.

Internationally she has been nominated for both the Hans Christian Andersen award and the Astrid Lindgren prize. She has a PhD in English literature and currently lives in Sydney.

Tohby Riddle

Tohby Riddle is an award-winning writer, illustrator, cartoonist, designer and sometime editor based in Sydney. He has written and illustrated numerous well-loved picture books; written a young adult novel; was the cartoonist for Good Weekend for nearly ten years; and is a former editor of The School Magazine, a literary magazine for children published by the NSW Department of Education.

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