"'Merriam-Webster's Dictionary for Children' is geared towards students ages 8-11. This two-color reference contains more than 36,000 entries as well as hundreds of black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. The book includes paragraphs about word histories, word roots, and synonyms and guides to confused, misused, and misspelled words, capitalization, and punctuation"--Provided by publisher.