Book jacket image for The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers

Candlewick

9781536235500

STARRED REVIEW

The Dictionary Story

Instructive though it may be, The Dictionary Story is even more fun than function, and the unexpected definitions populating this most unique of dictionaries will reward repeat encounters.

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Review of ‘The Dictionary Story’

Oliver Jeffers is one of the most recognizable and innovative creators in children’s literature today, and The Dictionary Story showcases his vivid imagination at work in yet another collaboration with the wildly inventive Sam Winston (following A Child of Books). An authors’ note explains this picture book as the product of a team of “so…

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