Sneaky Author Alert

What's a super cool way to teach kids a word they may not know, but appears in your story a bunch of times, so they probably should know it? Have your characters debate the meaning of it. Philip Pullman, you sly old dog, you.

"What do you mean, a paleo-archaeologist? Archaeologists already study what's old; why do you need to put another word meaning 'old' in front of it?"

Why indeed.

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