My First Word Book

By Angela Wilkes and Pat Thorne

Book by Angela Wilkes This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590740113
• ISBN13: 9780590740111
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: DK Publishing
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

You Must Buy This Book

I bought this book for my first child in 1995 and now my second child loves it just as much. EVERY page is taped up because they looked at it so much and both were very young so they would tear the pages as well. They both were probably 7-8 months old when they first fell in love with it. The revised edition is similar but yet very different; it is definately going under my tree this Christmas! Worth every penny and then some!!

Young minds love it!

We have had the book since our first boy was born. It has been literally torn to shreads since he has read it more than any other book. I am continually amazed as he pulls it out of the pile again and again to look at all the pictures. Kids love details and he notices them all. The book is full of intricate pictures and he and his brother love to pore over it for a long time. I came online just now to buy another copy since ours has lasted only three years and he still loves it. Maybe the publisher would consider a version made of rip-stop nylon?

Finally hid the book I got so tired of reading it! :)

I know that sounds like a terrible parent, but I really did hide this book because I got so bored of reading it constantly! My son got it for his first birthday and loved it so much that he tended to rip pages, etc. Our copy is in very bad condition from so much use! I did break down and bring it out of hiding later on when he was older and could take care of it a little better when reading it himself. My son is 5 now and still likes it a lot - he can now read the words that go with the pictures. If you are buying this book for a really young child, you might want to consider the My First Word Board Book instead - that way you won't have to supervise so closely and your child can read it himself.

1000 vivid,colorful, photographs of words in a child's world

This book has been wonderful for our little girl who we adopted from Romania at age 3 1/2 years. She only spoke three words in Romanian. This book has helped her make sense of her new surroundings by seeing photgraphs and learning the words. She loves to find the foods, animals and toys that she likes and to name them. I would highly recommend this book for every child as well as second language learner. There is no guessing about what the pictures are as almost everything is real. The few drawings are very clear and understandable. There is a Spanish version that gives the Spanish and the English word. I am an elementary principal and I ordered multiples of this book for each of my kindergarten through second grade classrooms. 90% of our students have Spanish as a first language so it has been great to share with our families. Our parents use it as a reference, too, to learn English!

a must for every kid!

We love this book! We are on our third book, because so far each of my kids has literally loved the book to pieces. The pictures are so vivid -- and there's a picture in here of just about everything a kid likes. I give this one as a new baby gift.