""People judge you by the words you use." This has never been more true than in our text-driven world of quick communications and often sloppy language use. Word Workout is a practical book for building vocabulary--a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with words known by most college graduates and ascends to words known only by the most educated, intelligent, and well-read adults. The workout will be a comprehensive program,...

Nancy is determined to make the cover of her very first book report as fancy as she can, but she spends so much time on it that she has no time to write about the book.

Nancy makes the best of not dancing the lead in her ballet school's Deep-Sea Dances show, but becomes jealous when her best friend gets a better role than hers.

Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, is excited to wear her elegant nightgown for Pajama Day at school, until best friend Bree and schoolmate Clara impress everyone by wearing matching pink polka-dot pajamas.

A cumulative tale of a farm maiden who, aided by a group of animals, prepares "Arroz con Leche," or rice pudding. Includes recipe and glossary of the Spanish words that are woven throughout the text.

When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.

Join Duck, Monkey, Sheep, Pig, and Ant on a series of fun outdoor adventures.-- Collection 1: Lots of Letters, Funs and Games, It's Time for School -- Collection 2: Welcome to WordWorld, Birthday Party -- Collection 3: Halloween Fun, Rocket to the Moon

Finally there's a word for it: Fidgital --excessively checking one's devices. Martyrmony --staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular That Should Be a Word feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick's wittiest wordplays--more than half of them new--arranged in ingenious diagrams...

Words with pictures for places, objects and animals found outdoors. Las palabras con las imágenes de lugares, objetos y animales encuentran al aire libre.

This illustrated book for little children stimulates learning the names of animals.