School Spelling Dictionary

Author: Maxwell, Christine

Interest age: from c 7 years

Published on 11 September 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Barrington Stoke Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
209 x 150 x 16 | 368g

The internationally bestselling tool to support writing and spelling.

Have you ever looked for giraffe under ‘j’? This is the dictionary for you!

This newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling School Spelling Dictionary allows you to search for words the way they sound and empowers you to write what you want to write.

A re-edited and rejacketed edition of Barrington Stoke’s internationally bestselling reference book to support struggling spellers

Its accessible, dyslexia-friendly layout has:

an alphabet across the top of the page to aid searching additional hints from the ‘Spelling Bee’ to help find words short descriptors for homophones and other easily confused words support with verbal inflections and comparative and superlative adjectives an introduction with helpful tips for successful spelling