The Word Spy - Ursula Dubosarsky

Recommended for all ages.

The Word Spy is a great book about the English language. Dubosarsky explores how our language and types of words came to be in a really fun way, with codes to crack and mysteries to solve along the way. It's full of wacky titbits that English teachers love - for instance, Lewis Carroll (author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) loved apostrophes so much that he used as many of them as he could!

This book will be loads of fun for any reader, and adults will find they learn a lot too. But be warned - some of the codes are really tricky!