Lists the translations in twenty-five languages for 1,000 common English terms.

Displays photographs of rocks that resemble the letters of the alphabet and objects represented by each letter.

Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird.

"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...

The game: Girls and boys have a good time playing baseball. -- Joe's toe:Poor Joe has a pretty bad accident. -- Bud's nap: Bud has a wonderful nap under a tree. -- The picnic: Jill and Tim have a picnic on the beach. -- The train: A cow stops a train. -- The visit: Toad goes to visit his friend mouse. -- Chickens: Chicken Big and Chicken Little play musical chairs. -- The king: A king and an unhappy girl become friends.

When a big blue whale comes to live near their reef, there is a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry.

Draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept, and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals.

Children will delight in this zany story of a trip to the city of Solla Sollew.