Today I am sharing four favourite books of mine and William’s
We are linguaphiles
We love learning about language and languages
We love collecting new words, interesting words and learning about their origins
We both enjoy learning other languages including German, Spanish and Latin
We love learning about word types like homophones and collective nouns
We like to have fun with words
We love word games such as Scrabble and solving anagrams
We love word play in jokes and riddles
Words are our bailiwick!
I am also a bibliophile so these four books are just perfect books
For me and my gorgeous son who shares my enthusiasm
William is also a blithesome blatherskite
Sharing his enjoyment with others through games and quizzes and excited conversations
William is also often guilty of circumlocution and I think perhaps that I am too
Our love of language, linguistics and word play can lead to us to being ebullient
When sharing our passion with others
If this post has so far left you flummoxed and you think it is filled with flapdoodles
Then you need to read the books we are sharing in this post
By reading these books you too can become grandiloquent
An Interesting Word For Every Day of the Year is a brilliant book
For helping children and their grown ups to learn a new word every day
The book is designed to help children build their vocabulary
Label their emotions and fire their imaginations
Each double page spread introduces 7 words and their meaning
The words have been carefully selected to be words that young children do not hear everyday
We love reading the new words, learning their meaning
Using them in our conversations through the week
And listening and looking out for them in the world around us
This is a fun richly illustrated book
That lives on the table where we eat and work so that we always have it to hand
The Dictionary of Difficult Words we discovered
At the start of the first lockdown and we used it to make some hilarious Zoom quizzes
For family and friends
We discovered the Edie was an abcderian and that mummy often feels ramfeezled
William and I are both sesquipedalian!
If like us you love words then you will love this book
We highly and heartily recommend The Dictionary of Difficult Words
We love choosing a new word and trying to say it as many times as possible
In natural conversation throughout a day
We have bought this as a gift for lots of people this year
It would be great for a classroom setting too
With over 400 words every page is packed with fun and information
We have learned SO much from this utterly brilliant book
Literally is a beautifully illustrated collection of 12 words
From the English language that have surprising stories
These are English words with global connections
Revealing the rich history and cultural diversity of our language
It is funny how the meaning of words can change over time
Every page is stunning and really interesting
This is a book we love to reread and again a book that makes a perfect present
The fourth book in our collection for word nerds is
Do you have a favourite word or book about words?
We would love to know x