A fun spelling mystery for second grade sleuths Kids love learning through amusing games and activities--and what's more fun than learning to spell by solving a

Helps children understand the meaning of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns by using these parts of speech in stories.

Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then wh

The former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary describes his thirty-seven-year journey through words, enlivened by entertaining and erudite