DICTIONARIES FOR SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

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Primary Grades

Barron's First School Dictionary, glossy hardcover, no jacket, first published by HarperCollins in 2000. For children 5 years old and older. This brightly illustrated dictionary is so user friendly it begs to be read. Word entries are in blue. Alternate forms of the words (plurals, past tense, etc) are in bold black type. If a word is pronounced in two different ways, the alternate pronunciations are given with rhyming words at the beginning of the definition. An example of the first part of one entry follows. The type is pretty close to actual size.
            lead leads, leading, led
              1(sounds like seed) If you lead
               someone, you go in front of them to show the way.
                You lead and we'll follow.

In the example above you will notice the simple, full-sentence definitions and example sentences that use words in familiar contexts. The first pages contain colorful, user-friendly directions on how to find words and how to get the most out of the entries after the word is found. At the end of the book are highly visual thematic pages of special interest to this age: dinosaurs, parts of the body, parts of a bicycle, parts of a car, clothes, time, seasons, synonyms, antonyms, position words, numbers, measurement, shapes, and colors. This is the sort of book children will read because it's interesting. 184 pages. For a sample page, click here. Cat. #BAR-54346. $12.56-D

Barron's Junior Dictionary, glossy hardcover, no jacket, first published by HarperCollins in 2000. For children 5 years old and older. Similar in format to the First Dictionary above, but with more entries and some different thematic pages at the end. vegetables, parts of speech, your body, your face, insects, amphibians, reptiles, young animals, words we use a lot, silent letters, confusable words, punctuation, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, time and time words, weather words,measures, abbreviations, colors and flat shapes, solid shapes, number words, and fractions. 272 pages. For a sample page, click here. Cat. BTH-5643. $15.26

Middle Grades
Ages 9-12 or Middle School

Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary, hardcover, HarperCollins, first Harper-Collins ed., 1996. 1024 pages. For middle school students. It livens up the language with brilliant color photos and illustrations, easy-to-read type, and many exciting, full-color, topical, two-page spreads on subjects such as marine life, space, ecosystems, sculpture, and atmosphere. A student reference section at the back contains maps, a list of presidents up to Bill Clinton, a table of chemical elements, a chart of geological time, mathematical formulas, and proofreader's marks.

The dictionary part has instructions for use, 68,000 entries, 34,000 illustrative examples, 900 usage notes and synonym studies, and 1,200 color photos and illustrations. This is a new book, but there is light damage to the bottom corners. #HC-2701614. $17.00* Out of print. Only one available.

Rest of page still under construction, but we do have dictionaries for the other ages.

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