Winning Words
What's the book about?
This book takes you on a fun tour of language, showing how words are born, how they change, and why they matter in our everyday lives. You’ll discover where some of your favourite words come from, how they get into dictionaries, and what goes on inside a dictionary’s pages. Along the way there are quizzes, puzzles, anagrams and conundrums to test your brain and help you play with words yourself.
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Reviews
Ben Gough, Age 9
This book is about
The book tells you about new words and where they come from. It also said about how words get into dictionaries and how dictionaries work.
The main characters are
It is a fact book.
My favourite part of the book is
A page with anagrams because they are fun!
I would also like to say
I enjoyed reading this book.
Ciaran, Age 5
This book is about
The book is about language and new words. It mentions the TV show called Countdown.
The main characters are
There are no main characters in this book.
My favourite part of the book is
Doing the anagrams and conundrums.
I would also like to say
This book was written by Susie Dent who is on the Countdown programme on TV in Dictionary Corner.
