Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids―Building Vocabulary Through Etymology, Definitions & Stories - Softcover

Zafarris, Jess

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646112598 ISBN 13: 9781646112593

Publisher: Callisto Kids, 2020

Synopsis

Where do words come from?―Teaching kids ages 9 to 12 vocabulary through word origins

The English language is made up of words from different places, events, and periods of time. Each of those words has an exciting story to tell us about where, when, how, and why they came about. Once Upon a Word is packed with easy-to-understand definitions and awesome word origin stories. With this dictionary for kids, you can understand the history and meaning of English words, improve your vocabulary and spelling, and learn to play with language.

Explore how weird words like gnome, fun words like zombie, and common words like caterpillar came to exist. Discover why some words sound funnier than others (like cackle, sizzle, and twang) and why some groups of words start with the same few letters (like hydrate, hydrogen, and fire hydrant). In this dictionary for kids, there's a whole world of English words to uncover!

This unique dictionary for kids includes:

• Roots & branches―Learn about the building blocks that make up words, called roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
• Kid-friendly definitions―Look up definitions designed for your reading level in this dictionary for kids.
• Word tidbits―Find out where your favorite food words got their start, from bacon to marshmallow, spaghetti, yogurt, and beyond.

See how the English language evolved with this colorful dictionary for kids.

About this title

About the Author

JESS ZAFARRIS is the author of Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids (Rockridge Press, 2020). She is also an award-winning innovator of digital content and marketing solutions and a prolific online and print journalist, having most recently served as the Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwriters. Before that, she served as Digital Content Director and Content Strategist for Writer's Digest and Script, and she still occasionally writes for WD.

Her nine years of experience in digital and print content direction and marketing include such roles as editor-in-chief of HOW magazine and online content director of HOW and PRINT magazine, as well as writing for the The Hot Sheet, the Denver Business Journal, ABC News, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

She has a bachelors in English Literature (with minors in Arabic and Anthropology) from DePaul University and a masters in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of Colorado Boulder. She spends much of her spare time researching curious word histories and writing about them at UselessEtymology.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Callisto Kids
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646112598
• ISBN 13: 9781646112593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268