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The Return of the Word Spy: A Funny and Fantastic Voyage into Language, Grammar and Beyond
by
Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author),
Tohby Riddle
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...more
Hardcover, 268 pages
Published
May 4th 2010
by Penguin Australia
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Full marks to Ursula Dubosarsky for producing The Word Spy, a CBC Award nominated book that made the foibles of our language so accessible to young minds. From this book about the mother tongue as written came many ideas for lessons, or parts thereof, for my students. This, the follow-up, concentrates more on the vagaries of English, delving into parts of speech, how we learn to speak and the ways our language has changed over time. I feel she delves a little too deeply at times. Grammar is a tu...more
Grammar is boring....well here is the antidote and about as good as it gets in context for children....teachers this is a call to arms!!!!
Well done. I wish someone had handed me this with a pass to skip 7th grade English class.
Quirky, fun and has some code breaking included. Very good for english
Brilliant funny interesting informative and did I say funny
Continues with some interesting facts about 'language'.
Once again, an amazing book! :)
TOTALLY IMPROVED MY ENGLISH!
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Very fun! I liked solving everything. This is a book worth buying!
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Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults. About The Golden Day, her first book with Candlewick Press, she says, "The little girls watch, wonder, respond, change, and grow — and then their childhood is gone, forever. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. But, as I say — all of our teachers come home safe and so...more
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