Richard Scarry: Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary. A picture word book for young children

This is a unique early learning word book. It ensures children will learn quickly because learning with Richard Scarry is enormous fun. A huge cast of his delightful animal characters illustrate and explain each entry with an appealing tiny tale, so a child's reading ability and vocabulary will be improved and extended whenever, and however, he or she uses the book.
The child just starting to read will learn the concept of alphabetical order and letter and word recognition. The child who is already reading will be given helpful practice in spelling, sentence construction, differing word forms and vocabulary.
The entries have all been very carefully chosen: the selection goes beyond the usual animal-to-zoo nouns. It includes abstract, time, and concept words such as ealmost', yesterday', and equite' – the words that are most often confused by young children. These diffcult words are used in ways which are simple, clear-cut and completely understandable.
Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary has been designed primarily for children, but it is planned, too, with the thought that parents, teachers and librarians will be reading it over and over again, and that it must be enjoyable for them as well.
Any child who has the opportunity to look at these pages will learn a great deal as well as having a lot of fun and it is certain that young readers will return to the book many, many times – for enjoyment as well as to look up a word.