I bought this dictionary for my daughter at the beginning of year 3, after the junior dictionary (different publisher) we bought for her at the beginning of year 2 went virtually unused (a lot of the words which appeared in her average year 2 reading material simply were not in it, although it was meant for her age group). I would recommend this dictionary for anybody looking for a dictionary for children 6+, since it features all of the words, is not too big (compact enough for the book bag but well bound), and is concise and easy to use. Each page shows a dictionary section on the top half of the page, and a thesaurus section on the bottom half of the page. Don't waste time buying those junior illustrated dictionaries; they are generally not comprehensive enough to last KS1.