Colins school dictionary or Oxford school dictionary?

[LadyPumpington]

Hi wondering if anyone knows which one I should buy for dc. TIA.

I had Collins Illustrated Primary, which was good, but I'd always go one age range older than they suggest if you want to use it for looking up definitions, because the range of words in it was pathetic; it would literally never have any word my 7 year old wanted to look up.
6 year old DS now has it, while DD (now 8) has Usborne illustrated dictionary/thesaurus, which is pretty good

Collins much better, clearer and good typeface.
OH prefers it as well, and he used to work for OED

Usborne doesn't use IPA btw, which I agree is a downside.

In choosing a dictionary for myself I prefer Collins as they use the International Phonetic Alphabet, rather than some crappy made-up phonetic system.

but for a child, the IPA may be pretty much incomprehensible.

We didn't have a 'school' dictionary at home (not sure what the school used) - when DD was about to start secondary I let her choose her own (she didn't like our Collins) and she went for the Colour Oxford. Depending on the age of your DC you might want to let them take a look and see which they find easiest to read.

DSs school (secondary) recommended something else... something German beginning with H [too lazy to go upstairs and look]

Heinneman English Dictionary.

Ds is 9 and has outgrown Oxford junior dictionary keeps complaining some words aren't there so I was looking to buy a new one. Thanks for suggestions so far.

when I was at school many moons ago we all had to buy the little Oxford dictionary when we were 8. I bought ds1 one when he was 8. We have a massive Collins dictionary and thesaurus combined if the dc get stuck but can't remember a time when LOD wasn't enough at primary level.

The equipment list for our secondary school states that all pupils should have Pocket Oxford English Dictionary and Pocket Oxford thesaurus. I'm sure you can probably get them combined these days though.