Full color illustrations and photographs enliven every page and the book's easy-to-use format and lively text bring the history of language and word usage to life. Special panels on every page provide bite-sized pieces of information and spelling, grammar, and punctuation, encouraging children to mater these, sometimes tricky, features of the English language.

Includes:

- More than 8,000 carefully chosen entries
- More than 1,000 color illustrations and photographs
- Word history, spelling, grammar, and punctuation notes