Scholastic First Picture Dictionary

Product Description A charmingly illustrated thematic First Dictionary with more than 800 words and illustrations. Transparent overlays throughout give an innovative and interactive spin to the project The SCHOLASTIC FIRST PICTURE DICTIONARY contains more than 800 words and pictures carefully chosen and organized by specialists in order to facilitate first-time readers. Five characters take the reader through a variety of beautiful, realistic, thematic settings. Furthermore, the magic of transparent pages animates each world, including a home, school, downtown, supermarket, farm, beach, and mountainside. The Dictionary is made interactive by frequent riddles whose answers relate to words found on the same page. From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 2–According to the front cover, this book includes more than 800 words and pictures by 16 illustrators. Topics include bodies, houses, schools, cities, shopping, and nature. Each page is bordered along its outside vertical edge. Periodic questions, or riddles, encourage viewers to think about what they are seeing by looking for specific things on the pages. Some pictures are confusing, mainly because they are not drawn to scale. On one page, a pebble is as big as the rock above it. Items supposedly located in a broom closet include a floor mat that looks like a kitchen towel, rubber gloves that are flesh toned and look like hands, and a sewing machine, among other things. Each chapter opens with a transparent overlay that changes the look of the pages on the spread as they are flipped from side to side. Some of these pages are too busy, with such small and undefined illustrations that it is difficult to see them clearly. Stick with what you have. –Kathleen Simonetta, Indian Trails Public Library District, Wheeling, IL Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.