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Have you seen my trumpet?

Presents a young girl looking for her trumpet, with her questions containing hidden words for animals that can be seen in the illustrations.

Have you seen my trumpet?

2016
Spot the hidden vocabularly words to find answers to questions within the words.

The roots of English

a reader's handbook of word origins
1989
Presents in concise readable form the ancestral sources of over six thousand common English words and how they have grown into the terms we use today.

Take away the A

2014
Text and illustrations demonstrate how subtracting a single letter from a word can make an entirely different word.

The structure of words

A thorough primer on word structure. It explains the roles of phonemes, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, abbreviations, and a host of other linguistic elements.

English words from Latin and Greek elements

1986
Contains a collection of exercises that compare the English language to its Latin and Greek origins and discusses elements from the Indo-European family of languages such as Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, and Italic roots.

Pit stop prefixes

2009
Young reporter Jeff Jordan learns about word prefixes at the Speedway 200, as the top racers compete, pull in for pit stops, and more.

Soccer goal suffixes

2009
Sportscaster Buzz Star and young reporter Eddie Finale use suffixes as they cover a soccer championship.

The Oxford reverse dictionary

1999
Presents thirty-one thousand alphabetically arranged English entries listing related words and phrases; designed to help users find the words that are on the tip of their tongue.

Catch-a-wave compounds

2009
Sportscaster Buzz Star and young reporter D.J. Foote use compound words as they cover a surfing competition.

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