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Return of The Word Spy

Return of The Word Spy

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

by Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/01/2013

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Dear Readers, I'm back! Yes, I've returned to take you on a dizzying journey through the strange and wonderful wilderness of words ...For all those fans of The Word Spy, here she is again! Join her on a new expedition that goes even deeper into the magical realms of language. Discover hidden and silent languages, the secrets of grammar, dying words, newborn words ...and even crack a code along the way. Are you ready? Open up the book and let's go! Words on The Return of the Word Spy- 'Like an old friend, the charming Word Spy is back once more to extend our knowledge of written and spoken English ...' Magpies Magazine 'I-ay oved-lay e-thay ord-way py-say. That's Pig Latin for I loved The Word Spy! The best book I have ever read ...' Rowina Nathan, Age 10 Winner of the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
ISBN:
9780143306146
9780143306146
Category:
Educational: English language & literacy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-01-2013
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
264
Dimensions (mm):
184x130x17mm
Weight:
0.34kg
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 a multi-award-winning creator of picture books and illustrated books that have been published in many languages throughout the world.

Recent titles include Unforgotten and The Greatest Gatsby: a visual book of grammar. He has also written a novel; was the cartoonist for ten years at Good Weekend (the Saturday magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's Age); and is a former editor of the The School Magazine, a literary magazine for children published by the NSW Department of Education.

Tohby is based in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba in Australia.

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