Wonders In Words

• Author : Maxwell Nurnberg
• Binding : Paperback
• ISBN-10 : 8183071430
• ISBN-13 : 9788183071437
• Language : English
• Market : young Learner
• Pages : 96
• Publishing Date : May 01,2011
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
• Weight : 90 g

About The Book 

If all you know about a word is its spelling and its meaning, you sometimes don't know the half of it. As a matter of fact, you don't know its parents are, who its relatives are, or what pictures may be hidden somewhere within it."

Do you know how a flower, this sign *, a spaceman and an accident are all related?

The flower is an aster which is Greek for star. The star-shaped sign is an asterisk. Another name for spaceman is astronaut, literally a sailor among the stars, and an accident is a disaster-something that happens contrary to the "lucky" stars under which you were born.