A little boy fills his sound box with familiar words and pictures. Each illustration is accompanied by a single word that identifies it.

Rhyming text gives many examples of short words found within longer ones such as "pig" in "spigot" and "ant" in "pantry".

Presents 1,000 common French words accompanied by drawings. Contains a pronunciation guide.

A lively alphabet book filled with funny, happy creatures.

A girl named Little G puts objects that begin with the letter G, such as goats and grapes, into a box.

A young girl who uses fancy words and considers herself practically a poison ivy expert learns a valuable (and itchy) lesson about the plant after picking a bouquet of wildflowers.

Presents a forty-six-week series of daily exercises designed to teach the reader eleven hundred useful English words and idioms and to establish mastery of them.

Combines simple rhymes with anime-style illustrations in a series of skill-building stories that invites young readers to become familiar with word families that share similar long- and short-vowel sounds.

When the editors of The American Heritage College Dictionary assembled their list of 100 words every high school graduate should know, the response was over-whelming. The editors received so many requests to reproduce the list, they put it on the Houghton Mifflin website (ahdictionary.com). The site has since been visited by hundreds of thousands of curious minds. This handy book includes valuable information about the words on the list that both...