The McGraw-Hill Children's Dictionary

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Summary: The McGraw-Hill Children's Dictionary by Wordsmyth Collabora
Review: I bought this Dictionary to my son.I want he can learn more and got more interesting about reading and learning. After he got it, if anything he don't know he'll open the dictionary to look for it. I think it will really can help him and this dictionary is very easy to use.It is a very good Dictionary.

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Summary: This is NOT the only dictionary your child will ever need!
Review: This dictionary disappoints from the very beginning! While it is beautifully laid out, with color-highlighted parts of speech, excellent font size, easy to understand syllabication and a complete alphabet on each page to help children remember the letter order, the content is severely lacking. My eight-year-old daughter couldn't find the first word she looked up: "dappled". Other words required for school, such as `contiguous, personification, peripatetic, pachyderm, horseradish and more, were not in this dictionary. These are all words that a child wouldn't necessarily know the meaning to, but would be part of a course of study. Soon my daughter didn't want to use it. What's the point of going through all the work if you probably won't find the word? We exchanged it today for the Encarta World English Dictionary and we're both much happier. The Encarta is all black & white, but at least it has the words we need. McGraw Hill advertises its dictionary as `The only one your child will ever need" and states that it is "targeted at the students in elementary through middle school". I find it impossible to believe that a middle school child would have no reason to look up the words that we looked up. I guess McGraw-Hill assumes that children won't use dictionaries after first or second grade, except as bookshelf ornaments or paperweights.