Macmillan First Dictionary by Levey, Judith
	List Price:   $16.00 Unit Price:   $12.80 You Save:   $3.20 (20%) ISBN-10:   0027617319 ISBN-13:   9780027617313 Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Series:   Dictionaries Ser. Edition:   Revised Category:   Reference Pub. Date:   August 1990 Pages:   416 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   5 to 8 years Grades:   0 to 3
Subjects
ENGLISH LANGUAGE_DICTIONARIES, JUVENILE ENGLISH LANGUAGE_DICTIONARIES
Description/Notes
An alphabetical list of nearly 2200 common words with meanings, explanatory sentences, and illustrations for those words considered "conceptual." Getting a child to look into the look-it-up habit will be easy with this exceptional book. Complete revised and expanded, this successor to the popular Macmillan Very First Dictionary features 2,100 entries and over 550 full-color photos, illustrations. From the publishers of America's #1 dictionary for children comes a completely revised and expanded edition of the best-sellingMacmillan Very First Dictionary.Truly the perfect dictionary for beginning readers, theMacmillan First Dictionarydefines words in a way children can easily understand. Definitions are phrased clearly and simply -- and are given in complete sentences. Colorful photographs and illustrations make even difficult words easy to grasp. TheMacmillan First Dictionaryis the one book every preschool and primary-grade child should have. From Chapter Dictionary A-Z lightning Lightningis a bright light sometimes seen in the sky during a storm. It is electricity between clouds or between a cloud and the ground. Thunder is the sound that comes afterlightning. likesup1; When something islikesomething else, it looks, acts, feels, or seems the same in some way. Tad is dressedlikea clown. likesup2; If youlikesomething, it means that it makes you happy. Iliketo read.liked, liking. line 1.Alineis a long, thin mark. Jan used a pencil to draw alineacross the paper.2.Alineis also things in a row. We stood in line for the bus.lines. lion Alionis one kind of large, wild cat.Lionsare yellow or brown.lions. lip Alipis the part of your face around your mouth. People have twolips.lips. liquid Aliquidis something that is wet when you touch it.A liquidcan be poured. Water and milk areliquids.liquids. list Alistis a number of things that are written down. Lauren made alistof the people she wanted at her party.lists. listen Listenmeans to try to hear in a careful way. The childrenlistenedto the story. Thelma likes tolistento music. I likelisteningto the sound of rain falling on the roof.listened, listening. lit Litcomes from the wordlight.Welita candle to find our way down the dark hall. Uncle Davelitthe logs in the fireplace. little 1.When something islittle,it is small. Mylittlesister can't walk yet. An ant islittle.That is thelittlestpuppy that I have ever seen.2. Littlealso means not very much. Jack drank only alittlejuice because he wasn't thirsty. Cally used alittlered in her painting. We only spent alittletime picking apples because it started to rain.littler, littlest. Copyright copy; 1990 by Simon & Schuster