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The Return of the Word Spy

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

The Return of the Word Spy( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Dubosarsky, Ursula
Illustrator: Riddle, Tohby
ISBN:978-0-670-07354-2
Publication Date:May 2010
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Viking
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

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 Return of the Word Spyshe continues the fascinating journey through language, with chapters on...
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Book Details
Pages:268
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 19.2 x 2.6 cm
Book Weight:0.454 Kilograms
Author Biography
Dubosarsky, Ursula (Author)


Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Ursula Coleman, Sydney, in 1961. She is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and voice. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. She is the author of illustrated books and novels, and also three works of non-fiction about the English language, grammar and etymology for children, featuring a comically enthusiastic character known as "The Word Spy". These "Word Spy" books, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Award and Book of the Year Award. In the United States and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop. Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - "The Red Shoe", "The Terrible Plop" and "Too Many Elephants In This House".

She is a Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee and a Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominee.

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