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Owlkids Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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Did you know that there are nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world? This book introduces you to a wide variety of different languages to start you off on your language-learning journey. Find out where languages come from and where they are spoken. From Arabic to Zulu, Morse code to whale song, this book is packed with language facts and phrases to help you communicate all around the world. It includes: basic vocabulary and short dialogues...
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Pub. Date
2021
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This picture dictionary has specifically been designed for children in the age group of 5 to 12 years, keeping in view their inquisitive minds and tender age. The colorful images will stimulate the children's curiosity, and help to increase their word power while providing enjoyable learning. The dictionary has been compiled in alphabetical order, and includes words that are relevant in daily life
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Dunhill Clare Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Twenty-six pages A - Z make it super easy for young children to focus and learn a new language with only one picture and word per page. Atop each picture is the word in English and below is the word in Hindi. It?s a wonderful English to Hindi picture dictionary! The pronunciation of each Hindi word is also provided for ease of learning. Five more bonus pages help teach an additional twenty-six words for common things found in and around the home....
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FaithWords
Pub. Date
c2012
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In this book the author discusses the power of words and provides a guide to 'smart talk' that can change your life. Words are a big deal. They are containers for power, and we have to decide what kind of power we want our words to carry, says the author. "I believe that our words can increase or decrease our level of joy. They can affect the answers to our prayers and have a positive or negative effect on our future. One might say that our words...
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"It is the year 2205 and the women of Earth are once again property. Two women, Nazareth and Michaela--one a brilliant linguist, the other a rebel servant--are destined to challenge the power of men. What neither woman realizes is that a revolution is already underway: women, hidden away in Barren Houses, are slowly creating a language of their own to free them from men's control and make resistance possible for all women."--Back cover.
10) Gibberish
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When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
11) Pie in the sky
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
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"English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Step right up and read the genuine stories of writers so intoxicated by the shapes and sound of language that they collected, dissected, and constructed verbal wonders of the most extraordinary kind ... A love letter to all those who love words, language, writing, writers, and stories, Alphamaniacs is [an] ... illustrated collection of mini-biographies about the most daring and peculiar of writers and their audacious, courageous, temerarious way...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Joyce Meyer, # 1 New York Times Me and My Big Mouth, Joyce Meyer draws from personal experience and Scripture to illustrate how prayer and positive words can be used to overcome every challenge that stands in the way of fulfillment. Joyce teaches readers how to to stop talking idly about their problems and use God's POWER WORDS to defeat them.
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Frances Lincoln Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
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"The B on Your Thumb is a book of 60 hilariously illustrated rhymes and delightful ditties to boost early reading--each poem teaches a specific sound, spelling, or rule. Using rhythm and wordplay, they promote phonics awareness, thinking skills, and literacy. But most of all, this book delights young readers with the fun and silliness of the English language. An introduction instructs grown-ups how to use the book and extensive activities at the end...
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