Customer Reviews

German Picture Word Book (Dover Children's Language Activity Books)

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Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with this book. Nowhere did it say that this is a coloring book, so the title page is deceiving with its nice colors. For an older child who is crazy about coloring (because of the very busy and detailed scenes) this may be something, otherwise you can't even make out much on the black-and-white scenes. My toddler picks it up often because of the colorful title page and then is always disappointed once we open it. As a German mother, it therefore has no value for me in teaching my child German, which is too bad.

Nice busy pictures for children to colour in. I think it's best for 5-10 years old that like colouring in. Younger kids won't be able to read the words and the pictures are busy. Good set of vocabulary is covered.

This book is good for building basic vocabulary in German. It is basically a coloring book, but it would be nice to have a version with darker ink, so my senior students could read it better. Some of the pictures are obviously generic and do not exactly match German culture. Still, it's a good source, where there's no over-kill in vocabulary.

I have mixed feelings about the German Picture Word Book. First, I thought the book would be in full color, but the inside looks more like a coloring book, just black and white. I bought it for my young daughter, but the words are much too advanced for her,and the lack of color made her loose interest almost immediately.
On the up side, my husband is a German teacher and is planning to use the book to make handouts for his vocab lessons.
All and all, if you have an older child that is learning German, this is a great help, but I would not recommend this for younger children that just want to color or look at pretty pictures.

I was disappointed in this book because it didn't attach the word to the picture. Sometimes it was difficult to decide what the word was describing.

This book has a ton of pictures and words, but it's a little busy. I also didn't realize it was a COLORING book. I was looking for pages a little less cluttered and colorful as I got it for my toddler. Better for older children.

I got this book for my 5-year-old son. He loves this book. We took it on a road trip, so it kept him occupied and it was educational. He loved that he could color the book also! This was a great find!