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Summary: Great for kids
Review: this book is very easy for my child to use. She loves the illistrations and makes learning fun
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Summary: not so great!
Review: This dictionary WAS good up until my child was in 1st grade. Ever since then, we are unable to find words in this dictionary!! It is a very frustrating experience for a child to actually use the book and then find this book does not have the words they need!! Only use this book for the early reader.
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Summary: not so great!
Review: This dictionary WAS good up until my child was in 1st grade. Ever since then, we are unable to find words in this dictionary!! It is a very frustrating experience for a child to actually use the book and then find this book does not have the words they need!! Only use this book for the early reader.
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Summary: For children under 9
Review: This dictionary worked well up through the third grade. Now that my children are in the fourth and fifth grades they have many words to look up from their vocabulary assignments that are not in this book. I think the best age for this book should be five to eight. For that age range it's a 5 star book.
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Summary: Simply the best Dictionary for elementary school kids.
Review: This is a fun to use dictionary that has large print so they can read it with ease. Lots of great pictures too. My son really enjoyed looking at this dictionary.
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Summary: A good, if flawed dictionary
Review: This large and handsome dictionary is designed for children aged 8 to 12. Along with the definitions are a number of excellent, highly colored pictures. The appendices of the book include the Braille alphabet, the American sign language, a map of the world, a list of flags and facts of the countries of the world, a map of the United States, a list of facts about the fifty American states, and a list of the Presidents of the United States. There is a lot of information in this book.We bought this book for our children sight unseen for Christmas, 1999. During the following year, if I had reviewed this book, I would have given it five stars. However, since then things have changed. My daughter is now 9, and is in the fourth grade. When in the course of her homework, we have twice found the need to look up words that turned out to not be in this book, the two words are "phylum" and "covey." I am rather disappointed that this dictionary is not sufficient for a 9 year-old's purposes, but I do not want to make too much of that. Overall this is a very good book, and a worthwhile addition to your library.
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Summary: lots of words, easy to understand definitions
Review: What I love most about this dictionary is that it has a lot of words, and adequate definitions for them -- but the definitions are not complicated themselves. Most of the words the kids need to look up are in there, and they don't get confused on the definitions, either. My kids use this one all the time -- we've bought 5 copies to date, and since I have 6 children, we will undoubtedly get more as time goes on. My friend, who is the head teacher of a K-12 school, has several copies of this dictionary in each classroom, and prefers it to any other simple dictionary. This is really an excellent choice for children.
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Summary: good for 3rd grader
Review: When my third grade daughter started to have a daily word to look up as part of her homework, we quickly discovered that the various adult dictionaries we had at home were not suitable. The print was too small and the definitions often had other words she did not know. We also had a "children's dictionary", but it did not have any of the words that she was assigned. Since she uses the Scholastic Children's Dictionary in her classroom, I suspected that any words she brought home would be in it, since I assume that the teacher checks that dictionary before assigning them. So the fact the ten words I checked were in this dictionary, but not in some other children's dictionaries in the stores, does not necessarily mean that this one is more complete. But I do like the layout and typefaces used. My daughter, who is slightly dyslexic, can find words reasonably easily. One flaw is that it lacks a page to indicate how far down the edge to look for the "thumb index tab" markings for a given letter. The book suggests looking for the "ninth red tab" for the letter "l", but I don't find that a practical way to find a section. A useful addition would be cutouts on the edge for these letters (seen on some adult dictionaries) even though that would certainly increase the price. The sample sentences for each word help give an idea of word usage. And warnings about homonyms are also helpful. The definitions are simple enough for an 8 year old which is perfect for our current needs, but I'll want to buy a more advanced dictionary for my daughter in a couple of years.
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