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This new dictionary encourages children to explore language through a collection of picture definitions. Naming and comparing labeled images helps children build vocabulary and offers new discoveries about topics from music to mammals. This visual dictionary includes a wealth of information guaranteed to stimulate a childs mind for years. Full-color photos and illustrations.

Perfect for both children who are just discovering reading and those who are rapidly expanding their vocabularies, The Childrens Visual Dictionary provides a variety of words and phrases that match up with more than 700 richly detailed and clearly labeled photographs and illustrations. Published by Dorling Kindersley, the same company that gave us the ultimate visual dictionary, this childrens dictionary has an easy-to-read table of contents that goes from "All About People" to "Space," with many sections in between--including eight different animal chapters that contain colorful combinations of photos and drawings that kids of all ages will love. Featuring word lists developed in consultation with reading and language specialists, The Childrens Visual Dictionary is the perfect tool to expand comprehension and recognition skills of young readers and writers.