The American Heritage Children's Dictionary

The 2006 update of this award-winning dictionary for young readers encourages language exploration with accessible definitions and thought-provoking feature notes. Entry words are illustrated throughout with clear, colorful artwork.• More than 13,000 main entries, fully updated for 2006• Thousands of sample sentences showing typical usage• Hundreds of Word History, Language Detective, Vocabulary Builder, Synonym, and Spelling notes• More than 1,000 full-color photographs and drawings• Separate thesaurus, phonics and spelling, parts of speech, and geography sections in an appendix