| about |
If a book is about trains, it means that the book tells you many things that have to do with trains. It might tell you things like where the first trains were built, what fuel trains use, or how fast trains travel. [1/2 definitions] |
| album |
An album is something that looks like a book with empty pages. We use albums to keep pictures and other things we want to look at and keep safe. Most people use albums for photographs, but people who collect things such as stamps or coins use albums too. |
| audio |
Anything audio has something to do with sound. An audio book is a book that you can hear being read. An audio tape is a tape that has sound recorded on it and that you can listen to. [1/3 definitions] |
| author |
An author is someone who writes a book, play, story, or poem. |
| book |
A book is something to read, look at, or draw on. It's made up of sheets of paper between two covers. Each sheet is called a page, and the pages usually have writing or pictures on them. Some books have empty pages so you can write or draw on them. |
| chapter |
A chapter is a part of a book. Picture books don't have chapters, but books that tell a long story often do. Each chapter is a few pages long. Big books usually have longer chapters. |
| comic book |
A comic book is a book or magazine that tells stories using pictures that someone has drawn. Some comic books tell funny stories, but many comic books are about adventures, love, or other things. |
| dictionary |
A dictionary is something that tells you a lot of things about words in a language. It is a book that you can hold in your hands or something like a book that you can read on a computer. A dictionary tells you what words mean, how to say them, and how they are spelled. |
| dust |
When you dust something, you clean dust off of it. If you dust your book shelves, you wipe the dust off the shelves. [1/2 definitions] |
| everywhere |
When you look everywhere for your book, it means that you look in all places for your book. |
| familiar |
When you are familiar with something, you know about it. When you have lived in a town for many years, you are familiar with it. If you are familiar with a book, you know about it because you have read or heard about it. [1/2 definitions] |
| famous |
When something is famous, many people know it. If some person is famous, many people know their name and things about them. If you discover something or write a great book or become a star in sports or movies, you could be famous! |
| fat |
If something is fat, it is thick. A fat book is a thick book. [1/3 definitions] |
| final |
When something is final, it is last or happens at the end of something. The final chapter of a book is the last chapter of a book. |
| find out |
When you find out some information, you learn or discover it. When we want to find out something, we often ask someone else or we look for the information in a book or on the computer. Sometimes we find out something by just seeing a thing that tells us what we want to know. |
| finish |
When you finish something, you come to the end of it, or you come to the end of what you are doing with it. When you finish a book, you come to the end of the book. When you have finished your painting, it means that you have stopped working on it and it is done. |
| have |
If your family has five people in it, it means that there are five people in your family. If a book has ten pages, it means that there are ten pages in the book. [1/6 definitions] |
| have to do with |
Let's say that your book has to do with birds. This means that the book is about birds or it is connected with birds in some way. |
| hero |
The main male character of a book or movie is sometimes called a hero. [1/2 definitions] |
| heroine |
The main female character in a play, poem, story, or book is sometimes called a heroine. [1/2 definitions] |
| illustrate |
When someone illustrates a book, they draw pictures to go along with the writing. [1/2 definitions] |