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The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar...

Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of the origins and development of over 3,000 words in the English language. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled...

The micro-friends arrive on Planet Exis, but a space villain called Badlaw is waiting for them! Now Nok needs the friends' help to defeat Badlaw and save the planet. Find out what happens in Planet Exis. In Attack of the Buzzles, our heroes are chased...

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human languageBook InformationISBN 9781783966646Author Paul Anthony JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson LimitedWeight(grams) 138g

The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times. Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times...

Now in its second edition, Romanian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to modern Romanian. It takes the student through the essentials of the language, explaining each concept clearly and providing many examples of contemporary...

Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated stories written by best-selling author Julia Donaldson. The series contains a variety of storylines, rhyme, rhythm and genre ensuring there is something for every child...

Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing...

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

Find out what happens when aliens invade your planet in The Night of the Ticklers. Mike and Katy discover that an alien invasion can be a ticklish situation... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and...

The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535983204Author Andreas J. KoeStenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Broadman & Holman PublishersPublisher Broadman & Holman Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957283732Author Jennifer FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Ooh LovelyPublisher Ooh LovelyWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

If many hands make light work, how can too many cooks spoil the broth? If you'll find the best advice on your pillow, are proverbs even useful? How come these nuggets of wisdom are so similar all over the world? In this compact book (knowledge takes...

The Level 9 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories and More Stories A continue to provide a mix of...

In The Three Musketeers, d'Artagnan goes to Paris with the ambition to become a musketeer - a member of the King's Guards who are the most daring swordsmen in France. D'Artagnan must convince the three musketeers Porthos, Athos and Aramis that he is good...

These Edexcel GCE English Language resources support the new specification and are written by an expert team including senior examiners. Develop students' critical approaches to language in a practical way through stimulating sources and activities,...

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a...

In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that...

This introductory guide to grammar explains one hundred basic grammatical terms. A knowledge of such terms, and how they interconnect, is crucial for an understanding of the structure and function of language. The explanations are listed alphabetically...

This introductory guide to grammar explains one hundred basic grammatical terms. A knowledge of such terms, and how they interconnect, is crucial for an understanding of the structure and function of language. The explanations are listed alphabetically...

Essential French Verbs is the course for you if you need help with your study of French. This fully revised edition of our best-selling course contains hints on how to learn verbs effectively.The aim of this book is to help you improve your command of...

The Level 3 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B build on the...

The Level 3 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B build on the...

A Communicative Grammar of English was first published in 1975, since then the book has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. It is now available in this fully revised and redesigned...

Developing Writing Skills in Arabic is specifically designed for upper-intermediate to advanced students who need to write Arabic for personal, professional and academic purposes.Making use of reading comprehension, analysis of stylistic devices, a...

The first dictionary of medieval terms intended for the non-specialist with an interest in the medieval world. An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126461Author David J. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 282g

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

The Routledge Introductory Course in Biblical Hebrew provides a comprehensive introduction to Biblical Hebrew language and texts. Combining a fresh and innovative approach with an in-depth treatment of the language, it presents the essentials of biblical...

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Amy decides to become a hedgehog expert in Amy the Hedgehog Girl. She is hunting for hedgehog facts in the library when she stumbles across a way to talk to hedgehogs. But what will happen when the dreadful Mr Peck from next door finds out? TreeTops...

Icelandic: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of Icelandic.Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the...

Part of the "Storyworlds" series, this is a pack of the four Stage One "Fantasy World" stories about fantastic creatures which should appeal to children's imaginations. The stories are "Mr Big Goes to the Park", "Mr Big Has a Party", "Mr Big Goes on...

The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by reflecting on the significance of Dylan's remarks on...

'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny' - Paul Hayward 'Amusing and informative in equal measure' - Oliver Kay, The Athletic 'A wonderful, endlessly delightful book' - When Saturday Comes ...

'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big...