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A clever, playful, delightfully nuanced compilation.
This books is great! The illustrations are fun but I like that they're not always obvious, so my kid still has to read the word, rather than guess it. We use this book for reading and then he'll write out the ones he likes. Great book for emerging readers and writers!~ From this savvy librarian
Loved this, just wish it wasn't so big and heavy for small hands.
Wonderful vocabulary builder and reader for children! My daughter has loved it from a young age and she’s 5 now.
Artist and designer Christophe Niemann (one of my favorite Instagram accounts, @abstractsunday) presents this hefty kids' visual dictionary inspired by the Fry Sight Words. Teachers, especially vocabulary and ELL teachers, will want to make note of this. Niemann goes beyond "apple" and "hand" to illustrate more abstract words, like "this," "if," "as," and "before." Viewing the pictures and puzzling out their meaning, and thinking of the stories hidden within, underscores language as a building b...
Christoph Niemann never ceases to amaze me. He is not only one of the finest graphic artists on the planet, but is also a creative genius. I could study this book for hours and never tire of the iconic drawings and innovative concepts. It’ll have a prominent spot beside a favorite reading chair for frequent perusing and persistent inspiration.
One of the best primary books I've ever read! I recommend this book to every new parent. Students in preschool, kinder, ELL, or any other grade! I'm the third grade ELD (English Language Development) teacher at my school and I'm thinking of buying a class copy for my ELL students to read. I don't want to give mine up! I know the target audience is younger children but one of the hardest things for me to teach is sight words. My ELL students can read them but have no knowledge of what the word ac...
What a fun book! I am a few decades older than the intended audience for this one, but I had to say, it's a really cool little book for young readers and for even littler book lovers who are developing their pre-literacy skills. Christoph Niemann draws adorable figures that correspond to the idea of each of the more than 300 words in the book, helping readers make a connection between the printed text and the concepts of them.
It's not everyday you encounter a book could serve a really wide variety of readers in such an engaging way. I think for really young readers, it's just a picture book like Seasons. There's one word on each page (usually) and a simple illustration. Some are funny, some work with the word on the following page to create a little narrative. But where I think this book could be really great is with older kids learning to read. There are a lot of words that are really hard to explain (as, each, and
I received an advance copy of this at the bookstore where I work (Nightbird Books, Fayetteville Arkansas). When I saw this in the white box, I couldn't wait to get home and read it to my three-year-old. This is by far the best word primer I've ever seen. Whereas most will have a picture of, say, an apple with the word "apple" below it, this one has a more complicated, abstract relationship between word and image. For instance: a man stands with a rake and a bag of leaves. He's raked up every lea...
Not sure this would grab the attention of the target audience; ages 4-8. Must be read with an adult handy for explanations. For example page 138 "might," and page 144 "luck." Some words to pictures had me stumped, page 166 "and?" Pages 214-215 still have me perplexed and I'm an educated grown person!
This is a picture book, but one that's very chunky.The illustrations are all black and white -- they look like they're drawn with a black sharpie, with some parts colored in with that sharpie.My favorite parts are when the same word is listed on 2 consecutive pages, showing that the same word can have 2 very different meanings.
I great book to show ways of seeing and thinking about language. This was requested by the art teacher and it was an amazing purchase for teachers of ELL students too. Using this with literary language.
Very cool book, more than 300 different words to explore, all set to simple and creative illustrations that help define them.
Marvelous book. it would be a perfect textbook for icon design. I drew along with it while reading.
Found this on display while working the Children's department at work and had to give it a look.Not only does this book provide endless words to teach young children, but it also shows how words in the English language can be a bit tricky when they are spelled the same way but mean different things and in different context. I also love the play in words and how several pages can be a running thought while also showcasing the word at the same time. The illustrations are easy to understand while b...
This is a fantastic book for kids and also not kids. It takes three hundred common words and illustrates them in interesting and thought provoking ways. Some of them I am still not sure I see the connection to the word through yet. It's one of those books that is great to share because it provokes good discussion about what words mean, particularly when he uses one word and illustrates it in two or three different ways to show the changes in usage. It's not your average A is for apple, B is for
