Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary

With headwords in blue, clear definitions and attractive and helpful illustrations, this new edition of the Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary is easy and enjoyable to use. You can find meanings, check spellings and enjoy looking through the book to learn more about words.

This updated edition contains curriculum words (including words labelled for different subject areas), words that are hard to spell or ones which have alternative spellings. The definitions use sentences, phrases and synonyms to define each word in the best way. Different meanings are numbered and examples show how the words are actually used, based on research involving the Oxford Children's Corpus, a large database of children's language. There are also citations from well-known children's authors such as Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling and Jacqueline Wilson.

The supplement at the back of the book contains information on numbers, colours, shapes and time as well as spelling, grammar and punctuation, with activities to make language fun.