My First Word Board Book (My First Books (Board Books Dorling Kindersley)) [Board book]

DK Publishing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997 | Age Level: 2 and up | Series: My First Books (Board Books Dorling Kindersley)

Each spread features a different topic of interest and shows all its different aspects. Subjects range from clothes and food to going to school and much more.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Straightforward, clear, vivid, this mini picture dictionary is an ideal learning tool for budding young readers. Bright photographs of familiar objects, such as flowerpots, seagulls, potties, toast, telephones, and shampoo, illustrate simple word concepts and expand vocabulary skills. Based on the esteemed DK Publishing's bestselling full-size My First Word Book, this chunky little version is just right for small, curious hands. With categories such as "In the kitchen," "Toys," "In the garage," and "All about me," children can recognize and name familiar objects, as well as master new vocabulary. Photographs of related items (teapot, blender, spoon, saucepan) with the associated word help young readers categorize objects and connect words to images. Sections on colored shapes and counting broaden young readers' educational horizons even further! (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly

This bountiful catalogue of words in a typical preschooler's world marks the debut of the U.S. imprint of Dorling Kindersley, British innovators of the colorful photographic nonfiction identified with the Eyewitness series (Knopf). Crisp photographs and a few supplemental drawings of familiar household objects, foods, toys and clothing are neatly arranged on the spreads. A neighborhood post office and library, items in a supermarket and animals on a farm appear against ample white backgrounds--which help focus attention on these clearly labeled illustrations. Several energetic, brightly clad youngsters demonstrating "actions" and "playtime" are particularly engaging. This is a valuable first pictorial dictionary for youngest readers; older children may also enjoy using the index to match up objects, words and page numbers. Ages 4-8.
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Board book: 32 pages
• Publisher: DK Preschool (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789415143
• ISBN-13: 978-0789415141
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #680,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angela Wilkes is the author of several Dorling Kindersley books, including The Children's Step-by-Step Cookbook and My First Word Book.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better suited for all audiences, August 21, 2005

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Peter C. Davis (Sanford, ME) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My First Word Book (My First series) (Hardcover)

I am a speech therapist who works with preschoolers. I bought the most recent edition of this book, having used the first edition until duct ape would no longer hold it together. My chief complaint about the first edition was that it used many photographs of toys rather than the of real objects.

The current edition uses photographs of the real items, but I felt it actually used too many for my purposes. It has many photographs of scenes in various locations. This makes them too busy for many of the kids I work with; there is too much happening for us to be able to focus on only one or two objects or actions. The first edition featured pages full of pictures that were isolated on the page rather than embedded in scenes. I prefer the context-free format.

I was also disappointed with some of the vocabulary categories. Do preschoolers really need two pages of Places that feature Rocky Desert, Dry Desert, a Geyser and more? I could offer more examples here, but I've already given the book away to my niece.

Having pointed out my reservations, let me mention some of this books strengths. It does cover a lot of vocabulary; more than the first edition did. The pictures are all of the highest quality. It is a fine book.

If you want to share this book with a child whose vocabulary and language skills are average or above average, then I can recommend this book. However, for my purposes of teaching children whose skills are delayed, it just does not fill the bill.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for any kids library!, April 20, 2000

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Tami Lumpkins (Grapevine, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My First Word Board Book (My First Books (Board Books Dorling Kindersley)) (Board book)

I bought several of these type board books for my 2 year old speech delayed daughter. We are currently working on building her vocabulary, and this book has been one of the best because it not only catagorizes the objects (as mentioned in another review), but it also has full color photographs. Young children are unable to distinguish that an abstract drawing of a cow is a cow, but with photographs of actual items they can more clearly understand and label the objects.

This book is durable, colorful, and has many many pictures to help give my daughter the vocabulary she needs to communicate with us. She loves to "read" her book, and now her older sister is reading it to her, which also helps my seven year old in her reading skills.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great idea, execution leaves a little to be desired, April 24, 2000

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This review is from: My First Word Board Book (My First Books (Board Books Dorling Kindersley)) (Board book)

My one-year-old enjoys looking at this book, though he doesn't have the attention span for me to point out everything on the page every time. I have two complaints though--one is that the photos are very small in this board book format--the monkey, for example, is really hard to see. The other is that the objects photographed are VERY European-looking. The bicycle doesn't look anything like an American bike, the perfume bottle is unrecognizable, the ice cream looks like three macaroons in a bowl, the telephone is a red and black dial phone, etc. I think it would've been better to have American-looking drawings than these European photos.