Oxford First Picture Dictionary Paperback – 6 May 2010

My granddaughter loved it

This is an excellent book for an immigrant family to have in the house as it contains clear colourful pictures of objects and animalsin English. Young children love it as a picture book but even an adult coming new to written English would find it useful for learnig simple vocabulary and spelling. Every inner-city library should have a copy.

An excellent dictionary with very attractive drawings by Val Biro - unlike those terrible cartoon drawings seemingly produced by robots. Although aimed at young English children, it's excellent for teaching English, as I do, to immigrants.

Excellent First Dictionary. Clear layout. Amusing drawings to go with easy explanations of words. Extra pages at the back give examples of numerical exercises, days of the wee, month so of the years, the seasons, comparisons and some nice point and learn words. Very good value for money.

I purchased for my granddaughter who is 2. everyone agreed it looked just the job for her. We needed a book for her as her older sister has a similar book purchased for her mother!! (some years ago). Older sister loves her book.

Good presentation, nice illustrations to hold my kid's attention for a while since she was still a baby. I like the additional pages with different themes like playground, fairy tales characters, opposite words, etc.However I wish I had chosen another picture dictionary featuring people instead of animals doing daily activities. For example with the word "button" we see a monkey wearing a coat, with the word "wash" we see a frog washing face. My toddler can only identify the monkey and frog, it took her a while to understand that the monkey is fastening the buttons and the frog is washing face. Why not just show a monkey for the word "monkey", show a frog for the word "frog", show a person fastening the buttons, washing, running, playing football... instead? She can quickly name all the animals she sees and doesn't immediately understand that the picture is actually indicating something else such as, a skirt, a crying baby, a teacher, etc. The animal pictures should be for the animals only.

Quite nice and the kids enjoyed it

My little one is improving her vocabulary day by day