The Scholastic Children's Dictionary (ISBN: 978-1-338-23006-2)  Retail Value: $21.99 US / $29.99 CAN is a long lasting beautiful, hard cover book, not a paperback.  It includes:

• 896 Pages, more than 30,000 entries
• easy-to-understand descriptions
• comprehensive selection of words
• illustrations
• phonetic pronunciations, parts of speech, synonyms
• Plus 1000 Full-color photographs and illustrations 

At your fingertips:

• the Braille alphabet
• a guide to U.S. presidents
• facts about the states
• maps
• and more handy references.
• The dictionary is appropriate for Ages 9 - 14.

You can get this dictionary here at a cost far below the retail price