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

Jane Solomon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786038110 ISBN 13: 9781786038111

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2019

Synopsis

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 meaning is obscure to most children (and most adults!) Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

About this title

From the Author

The Dictionary of Difficult Words is geared toward children aged 7-12, but it's written to appeal to adults as well. As the cover suggests, it's a highly illustrated dictionary with only difficult words in it. This book welcomes all readers, even those who would never sit down and read a traditional dictionary cover to cover.

In addition to the definitions, each letter of the alphabet has a featured word that is explored in depth and accompanied with a bright full-page illustration by Louise Lockhart. These 26 pages are like an ABC book within the Dictionary of Difficult 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, dreaming up worlds where men still wear suits and hats. As well as working as a freelance illustrator, Louise also applies her illustrations to products for the home, which she sells in her online shop The Printed Peanut. Her clients include: Heal's, Mini Boden, Flow Magazine, Anthropologie, Chronicle Books, The Independent, Anorak Magazine, Mollie Makes Magazine, Macmillan Publishers, Pavillion Books, Donna Wilson, Graniph, Design For Today, Cicada Books, Compendium Inc., Little Otsu, Hallmark Cards, M&S and Liberty.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1786038110
• ISBN 13: 9781786038111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Lockhart Louise