Designed specifically for Canadian children, this book introduces young readers to the magic workings of a dictionary. More sophisticated than a picture dictionary, yet still containing more than 300 illustrations, The Puffin Canadian Beginner's Dictionary teaches both vocabulary and dictionary skills, and has been completely revised and updated to include material relating to new technology and current words. 
Intended primarily for six to nine year olds, the dictionary contains more than 6000 headwords, defined simply and clearly. Each sense of a word is numbered separately and begins on a fresh line. The words chosen for inclusion are those most likely to be needed by children in this age range. Accordingly, irregular or difficult plural and verbal forms have been included only in terms of their likely usage at this level. Examples of usage are provided wherever appropriate. Single pronunciation guides are given for words with difficult or ambiguous pronunciations. As well, two words per page spread are illustrated clearly and appealingly. The Puffin Canadian Beginner's Dictionary also contains appendices filled with useful information for Canadian schoolchildren: lists of information about Canada's provinces and territories, including websites; geographical information; and biographical information about Canada's Olympians and Prime Ministers.

Puffin Canadian Beginners Dictionary

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Weber, Ken

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Puffin

Another installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries offers more than 40 new intriguing cases to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! Astute readers can test their powers of observation and deductive reasoning, then turn to the end of the book for ingenious solutions to each case.

Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries: 40 New Cases of Murder and Mayhem for You to Solve

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Running Press

Another installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, Utterly Ingenious Five-Minute Mysteries offers more than 40 new intriguing cases to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! Astute readers can test their powers of observation and deductive reasoning, then turn to the end of the book for ingenious solutions to each case.

Utterly Ingenious Five Minute Mysteries

The latest (and smallest) installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, this new Miniature Edition™ offers intriguing mysteries to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! All told, our Five-Minute Mysteries have sold nearly 1 million copies, and author Ken Weber is a masterful spinner of short, taut tales.

The Mini Five Minute Mysteries

Children's Books

Mysteries & Detectives

Updated covers revitalize the first two titles in our extremely popular Five-Minute Mysteries series by Ken Weber, the master of the succinct whodunit. This attractive new series look is sure to appeal to young adults, introducing them to the lifelong literary pleasures of mystery novels. Each book contains more than 30 baffling cases, each with an ingenious solution guaranteed to challenge and entertain. Best of all, every mystery is short and sweet—easy to read in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn!

Five-Minute Mysteries

Running Press Adult

More Five-Minute Mysteries: 34 New Cases oif Murder & Mahem to Solve

Everyone knows James Dean died in a car crash. Does anyone know who was driving the other car? School children learn that Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. So which brother was flying? Most of us have had X-rays, but what does the "X" stand for? One-Up Trivia asks the questions that go beyond any other trivia game or quiz. It gives you not only the follow-up question to a "known" fact, but the answer and then some. You'll have trivia and true stories to share with and impress friends through many get-togethers! Get a leg up on the competition, and beat those so-called trivia buffs at their own game. Take trivia to the next level! Time: September 30, 1955, 5:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Place: California Route 466 near Cholane at the 'Y' intersection with Route 41. Action: A brand new, silver Porsche Spyder 550, traveling at 85 mph crashes into a five year old, black and white Ford Custom Tudor coupe. Driver #1: At the wheel of the Porsche was rebel-without-a-cause, James Dean. The one-up: Who was Driver #2 in the Ford? Donald Turnupseed, a college student. Unlike Dean, he survived the crash. The Ford was repairable, but Dean's Porsche was described as "crumpled up like an empty cigarette pack." No charges were laid. Was the Porsche a jinx car? Dean's friends had talked of it giving them a bad feeling, well before the accident and the strange things that followed it. When the ruined Porsche was stripped for parts, the engine went to professional racer, Troy McHenry. He totaled in his next event. Another racer, William Eschrid, installed the drive train: next race, same thing. A third collector bought the front tires; both blew out on the same trip. California Highway Patrol bought the shell to use as a drive-safely-or-else exhibit for teenagers. It fell off its pedestal...onto a Sacramento high school student.

One-up Trivia

As Ken Weber says, there are two kinds of people: the ones who love mysteries and the handful who don't. The throngs who wait eagerly for every new book in the Five Minute Mysteries series will be richly rewarded with this one that takes us from city to country, from a bank to a beach, and all over the world. They'll encounter detectives, thieves, and murderers, a sub-lieutenant searching for deserters during the Napoleonic Wars, an undercover KGB agent and a centurion in the Roman Empire. In all, there are 40 mysteries-40 chances to fly away from the drudgery of normal life for five minutes of high drama in another time and place. Sign us up!

Cleverly Crafty Five-Minute Mysteries

It's Ken Weber's wildly successful Five-Minute Mysteries series-now in its second mini edition! The Five-Minute Mysteries books have sold over a million copies because they're an anytime-activity that appeals to so many audiences: reluctant readers, bored kids in the backs of cars, families looking for a game everyone loves, amateur sleuths, puzzle-enthusiasts, time-challenged adults, and that burgeoning new crowd-baby boomers trying to exercise their brains. This harrowing collection of Halloween-themed mysteries is a great way to kick-off a fright night's revelries and an equally great hostess gift for the Mom who's letting the little ghouls have their post-game kick back at her house.

Five-Minute Halloween Mysteries (Miniature Editions)

Running Press Miniature Editions

Further Five-minute Mysteries: 36 New Cases Of Murder And Mayhem For You To Solve

Literature & Fiction

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