Is there such a thing as a children's dictionary?

[londondee]

Hi, my DD often asks me about words she's heard. Although I understand what they mean I have difficulty explaining them well to her. So I wondered whether such a thing as a children's dictionary might exist which could also provide relevant examples that may make more sense to young child (she's just turned 5). Thanks!

It did when I was a child
Don't know what happened to it, though.

It had word games in it, too, which made it more fun than the dictionaries they had at school for children.

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A quick Google shows Oxford does one and there are some online ones available.

(I should wait to think all my thoughts before posting.)

We had one of these for a few years usborne dictionary

I have to admit my kids didn't use it all that much, they progressed to an Oxford concise fairly quickly in junior school.

Thanks for your responses. I did google it before but following the various links did lead lead to much of interest. Will try some of the suggestions here, thanks.

We had an earlier version of this for infants and then moved on to this for juniors. DD's school actively encourages a dictionary at school and these were there recommendations.

We had Usborne ones. They looked nice and had attractive pictures but tbh they weren't much use for looking up unknown words - any time we tried to look something up the word was never in them. I think if you wanted a dictionary in that style and print size that would cover all the vocab in, say, Harry Potter, then it would have to be the size of a house.

If course there is.