This is a new edition with completely up-to-date text to take young readers into 2000. Specially written for 8 year olds and upwards it is an ideal companion to The Oxford Children's Dictionary. Its main features are: 70,000 synonyms, similar and related words; headword entries in colour; headwords and examples carefully chosen to tie in with those in dictionary; extensive treatment of core vocabulary; naturalness of examples supported by British National Corpus; information organized clearly with the most useful words given first; concentrates on the main function of a thesaurus - not to explain hard words but to give alternatives for familiar words; meets the school curriculum requirements; and it has been extensively trialled and tested in schools.