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Article: The Firefly Visual Dictionary. (Reference Award Winner).(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Children's Digest
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Noah Webster made dictionaries popular in the early 1800s using the format of nearly every dictionary before or since: A-Z alphabetized entries of words, followed by words defining them. Now The Firefly Visual Dictionary provides a whole new way of organizing words and defining the world around us through more than 6,000 color diagrams and colorful illustrations.
Words are organized around subjects and specific objects. There are seventeen sections related to life and the objects that are part of our ...
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Article: Visual dictionary for Spanish makes saying as easy ...
San Francisco Chronicle;
February 6, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... for those heading south. "The Firefly Spanish/English Visual Dictionary," by Jean Claude Corbeil and Ariane Archambault (Firefly ... valuable reference to the world of, well, things. The Visual Dictionary is too big to pack along for a weekend in Cabo, but for ...
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