Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary,   ISBN:9780756637583

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I've gifted the Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary to several families, and its helpful to all ages, as well as being illustrated wonderfully! I love otters, so I always direct them to that page and others to personalize the gift from me.

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This was a good book for referencing however, I had one problem. For my daughter's homework assignments, I needed a listing of synonyms and antonyms for words in the dictionary. There were none and I had to go to the online dictionary for help. Which I found right away on some dictionary websites. Other than that, it was a good book.

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As a child moves from 5 years old to 6, they will start to ask questions about things and words that are out of the scope of our "expertise". We found the solution to this problem with this book, MERRIAM-WEBSTER CHILDREN'S DICTIONARY (Ages 4-8). "Over 35,000 entries and more than 3,000 full-color illustrations", this reference guide will satisfy the inquisitive mind of your junior scientist at home. This dictionary is kid-approved as my son spotted it on the library shelf himself and could not be separated from it until he had his own copy. As he opened the pages and progressed from only looking at the pictures to fully digesting the definitions, we got the quiet time we needed and he got the answers he was looking for, accurately from DK's renowned language experts.

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I bought this for my 8 and 6 year-old children. We have tried to use it about a dozen times and only found one or two of the words we were looking for. I've realized that, by now, if there is a word they don't know, then it's probably not in this dictionary.

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Merriam-Webster Children's DictionaryI bought this with some trepidation as a gift for an eight-year-old boy whose primary interests, I had been told, involved sports activities that kept him moving. I thought he would hate it, but that he might somehow find it useful for school. And I hoped that its many illustrations, sidebars, pages with snakes and dinosaurs, and excellent definitions would eventually win him over. Much to my surprise, and the utter shock of his parents, the boy was fascinated by the book from the beginning--absorbed in it, in fact. So don't hesitate. This is an excellent first dictionary.