Customer Reviews

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

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Easy to read and work through. This book is ideal for building vocabulary in the Italian language one subject at a time. Highly recommended for college students and others who have a desire to increase their italian vocabulary by 500 commonly used words.

This is an excellent aid to development of Italian vocabulary. Although directed at children, it is useful for older students as well. The act of coloring in a figure while focusing on the word helps many people learn more easily.

I agree with some other reviewers that the pages are VERY busy, but I would not say that is bad for all toddlers. My son is 22 months old and would not have a problem with it. I haven't used the book much yet simply because I don't know how to pronounce all of the words. I bought an Italian language set with a CD that I'm hoping will help with that. I'm looking forward to reading the book regularly with my son.

I bought this for my 5 year old nephew in the hopes it would ignite an interest in learning Italian. My family is from Italy, and he is already familiar with some basic terms. It was one of many Christmas gifts, so of course, that day it got tossed to the side. I was delighted when my Mother told me that my nephew approached her and said, "Where's that Italian book that Zio got me?" She said they sat and learned words together and colored the pictures. This is a great book to review basic Italian vocabulary with children - being able to color and complete activities makes the book more enticing to open, again and again.

The book should be titled that it's a coloring book or should be colored b/c it's jumbled with all that information on each two page spread. It's very informative and I like the way certain things overlap, but difficult for toddlers (like my 2 year old) to process. I would recommend for older children - over 5 or 6.

basically a coloring book, with small words in Italian. Don't expect more than that!! Good for parents to practice/learn words, but not for a small child to read on his own.

But not terrific either. This is not a very good book for children as it is very detailed, very cluttered (especially the city scene and the supermarket), and frankly very confusing.

On the other hand... while there are certainly words in there that seem a bit silly to learn (I doubt birdbath is a commonly used word!), I would recommend it for college students who want to have a little fun while building vocabulary... It's easier than memorising a vocabulary list, and the words stick in your memory better after colouring a visual image.

We were very happy to receive the book so quickly and in such good condition!

I will keep this short and a bit sour, unfortunately. I found this picture book to be of little value as a tool to help teach my daughter Italian. The pictures in the book are too cluttered, there is just too much information on each page. Considering that this book was packaged with a CD to be used with children under the age of 2, it is just not useful at all. You would be better off getting an Italian-English dictionary and writing the words into one of your child's picture books yourself, then buy this book.