Oxford Children's Thesaurus

A new edition of the popular Oxford Children's Thesaurus, ideal for homework with updated text and a new Creative Writing supplement. Over 45,000 synonyms, with age-appropriate examples and opposites, make this an ideal thesaurus to help children aged 8+ with homework. It features Overused Word panels that suggest alternatives to words like ''nice'' and ''good''; Word Webs - ideal for project work - providing related words - for example ''bird'' includes types of birds, parts of a bird''s body, sounds made by birds and the words for groups of birds along with some illustrations of birds; Writing Tips that offer advice and even more vocabulary for writing, e.g. about how birds move - do they circle, flutter or perch? - or how to describe their feathers. Compiled using the Oxford Children''s Corpus, the Oxford Children''s Thesaurus delivers support and help where it is needed.