"The Oxford Children's Thesaurus" is a new edition with completely new, up-to-date text to take young readers into the new millennium! Specially written for this age group and an ideal companion to "The Oxford Children's Dictionary", its major features are: - 70 000 synonyms, similar and related words - Headword entries in colour - Headwords and examples carefully chosen to tie in with those in Children's 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 new school curriculum requirements - Extensively trialled and tested in schools - Durable sewn binding