# Identify this teaching book based on vague clues **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 2, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935 "2016-07-02T18:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/1 "2016-07-02T18:06:04Z")
Years ago, I used a picture book for language learning. It had absolutely no words. Instead, it had hand illustrated images of different items grouped logically. It was enormously useful for teaching and learning vocabulary. I’d like to buy a copy, butt have no idea what it was called. I seem to recall a blue cover with black and white illustrations and maybe some red on it. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/2 "2016-07-02T18:44:44Z")
How is it supposed to help to learn a language if it has absolutely no words? Do you mean no words in the learner’s native language? If that’s what you mean, I remember seeing something like that in my college library. Try searching for “pictorial dictionary,” “picture dictionary,” or “visual dictionary.” ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/3 "2016-07-02T19:46:25Z")
It’s helpful for tutoring. It’s like a picture dictionary but with no words. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/4 "2016-07-03T11:01:48Z")
I remember a book like that to help with sounds, but I had it when I was in 2nd grade in France at a bilingual school. That was almost 50 years ago though so… ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/5 "2016-07-03T11:07:19Z")
Hey! Found it! It’s French though… [Bien Lire Et Aimer Lire](https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=bien+lire+et+aimer+lire&newwindow=1&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1oriak9fNAhVn34MKHYiTDxwQ_AUICCgB&biw=1345&bih=895) [This was my book](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2f/cb/8a/2fcb8a64b9d2ad747231b6947ec8ad88.jpg), way back when. I remember that cover 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/6 "2016-07-03T11:28:18Z")
I found it! It’s called Lexicarry. They’ve added color and changed the cover since the edition I had. Thanks everyone! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![bizerta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-teaching-book-based-on-vague-clues/758935/7 "2016-07-03T12:40:34Z")
All of my children and all of my grandchildren have Richard Scarry’s, “Best Word Book, Ever”. Don’t want printed words? Ignore them.