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The Firefly Visual Dictionary. Willowdale, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books, 2002.
A visual dictionary contains numerous pictures of items with their component parts labeled with the proper names for such parts. The Firefly Visual Dictionary is similar to the former Macmillan Visual Dictionary, and is authored by two of the Macmillan dictionary's contributors (Jean-Claude Corbeil and Ariane Archambault). However, it is much bigger, with more color pictorial entries (6000) and word terms (35,000), and an improved layout.
The pictorials are grouped into 17...