The Scholastic First Picture Dictionary contains more than 800 words and pictures carefully chosen and organized by specialists in order to facilitate first-time readers. Five characters take the reader through a variety of beautiful, realistic, thematic settings. Furthermore, the magic of transparent pages animates each world, including a home, school, downtown, supermarket, farm, beach, and mountainside.

​​​​​​​The Dictionary is made interactive by frequent riddles whose answers relate to words found on the same page.