Books know their own stories quite well. But there is one book on the shelf that has the same words as the other books – but doesn’t have any story at all.

Dictionary decides she’d like to experiment with some of her words to have a story all of her own.

Alligator sets off on an Adventure inside Dictionary to see what will happen…

By the award winning team who gave us a ‘A Child of Books‘. The Dictionary Story begins with good intentions, but soon the order that Dictionary is supposed to have is tossed about.

This story of words looking for an adventure is simply told and equally illustrated. The imagination factor is deliciously rich however, as chaos reigns inside a curious dictionary with FOMO.

But look closer. Those dictionary listings aren’t quite what they seem, and add sooo much more to this deceivingly simple tale….

Loved it!

I’ve added a copy to my own bookshelves with all my other Jeffers treasures right beside, A Child of Books.

Author – Sam Winston

Illustrator – Oliver Jeffers

Picture Book

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