"English for Beginners is a Ladybird series designed for young people learning English worldwide. The emphasis is on word recognition and word learning through simple, clear text and colourful pictures and activities. Each hardback book is accompanied by its own workbook, re-enforcing the learning process in a structured but entertaining way. First dictionary is an ideal first picture dictionary. One hundred and thirty two colourful illustrations of the most useful everyday, each clearly labelled, provide an easy to remember introduction to the English alphabet and a first English vocabulary."