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  1. Teachers at Work

     A Kids' Librarian's Advice
    Wed Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    What books should your kids read? Just ask Betsy Bird. As a senior librarian at The New York Public Library's Donnell Central Children's Reading Room, she talks to parents and kids of all stripes about great reads. When she's not at the library, she's blogging on A Fuse #8 Production, her popular website dedicated to children's literature. And when she's not blogging, she's on the radio, talking about kids' books on NPR. All this as "a mere slip of a 28-year-old." We called Betsy for a book-filled conversation about children's lit:

    VT: Do you still remember the books you read as a kid?

  2. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: April Edition
    Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In the April edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we're celebrating National Poetry Month. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  3. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    You'll need to know your current events for the September edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  4. Language Lounge

     Add (or Subtract!) Your Voice
    Thu Jun 01 00:01:00 EDT 2017
    Eight pairs of sounds that are scattered across the lexicon of English support Henry Fowler's observation that relations among words in English come to us from our forefathers as an odd jumble and plainly show that the language has not been neatly constructed by a master builder who could create each part to do the exact work required of it, neither overlapped or overlapping; far from that, its parts have had to grow as they could.

  5. Backstory

     Larry Baker, author of "Athens, America"
    Sat Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    In the middle of my second term on the City Council of Iowa City, I got a call from the City Manager informing me about a police shooting the night before. Investigating an open door at a business in an area that had had dozens of burglaries in the previous months, a cop had pushed open the door and was suddenly confronted by a man with a small object in his hand. The cop, his own gun already drawn, reflexively fired at the man in front of him. That man was the owner. The object in his hand was a phone. The owner was dead in seconds, his chest ripped open by a single bullet.

  6. Candlepower

     How to Be a Good Client
    Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    A Visual Thesaurus subscriber's comment to an earlier column of hers inspired Nancy to write this piece. Thanks to both! -- Editor

    I've shamelessly borrowed my title from David Ogilvy, who used it as a chapter title in his best-selling 1963 book, Confessions of an Advertising Man. Ogilvy founded one of the world's most successful ad agencies; his clients included Rolls-Royce, Shell Oil, and Sears. Many of his do's and don'ts are timeless: Select the right agency in the first place. Brief your agency very thoroughly indeed. Don't underspend. Tolerate genius.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     "It Has a Lot of Commas"
    Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2008
    From Three Percent, the blog of the University of Rochester publishing house Open House Books, comes word of a stupendous literary feat. The French writer Mathias Énard has published a 517-page novel entitled "Zone," and the whole thing (aside from a few pages of flashbacks) consists of a single 150,000-word sentence! Don't know French? No problem: Open House is publishing an English translation, due out in 2010.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     The 2014 Spelling Bee Is Here!
    Wed May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    It's time once again for the Scripps National Spelling Bee! The preliminaries are today, and the nationally televised semifinals and finals are tomorrow (May 29). As in past years, our own Ben Zimmer will be live-tweeting the competition from the @VocabularyCom Twitter account and reporting on the results here in his Word Routes column. In the meantime, catch up on our coverage of the format changes introduced last year that brought vocabulary questions into the mix: here and here.

  9. Lesson Plans

     Judging Nick: Teaching "The Great Gatsby"
    Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to evaluate Nick's objectivity as a narrator in The Great Gatsby?

  10. Teachers at Work

     Bringing Lively Similes Into Student Writing
    Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    By the time they enter high school, most students know that a simile is a literary device used to show a similarity between two dissimilar things, and that the words "like" or "as" link the dissimilar things, as in "busy as a bee," "like a fish out of water," "as big as a house," and "fits like a glove." They know, too, that similes differ from metaphors in that metaphors dispense with "like" or "as" and get right to the point: "He's a rat." "Life is but a walking shadow." (Not all similes employ "as" or "like," as here: "On a normal day, Jennifer Capriati tends to rush through games with the haste of a short-order cook, moving from point to point without a pause.")
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