My First Word Book (Revised Edition) [Hardcover]

Angela Wilkes (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 1 and up | Series: My First (Big Books Dorling Kindersley)

Give kids a head start on a lifetime of reading. The best-selling My First Word Book and My First Word Board Book have been highly acclaimed by parents and educators alike since they were first published. Now DK is adding to these two favorites with a line of First Word books that will entertain and educate youngsters for years to come.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The original My First Word Book sold over 1.5 million copies around the world, and now the book is back--revised, refreshed, and ready to entertain. This colorful, oversized volume introduces kids to the world of words with over 1,000 photographs and illustrations. Objects are arranged by category (such as "In the garden" or "Pets") or concept (such as "Colors, shapes, and numbers" and "Opposites"). This essential book can be used for hours of happy browsing, a launching pad for countless stories, or as a fun way to get children started on the road to reading. (Baby to preschool)

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.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 1 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: DK Preschool; Revised edition (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789439778
• ISBN-13: 978-0789439772
• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #938,201 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.