wimmelbook

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noun

A picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.

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Meanings

nounwimmelbook (plural wimmelbooks)

plural wimmelbooks

  1. A picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.

    Reading a wimmelbook thus becomes an intrinsically rewarding act of experiencing oneself and the world.

    2011, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Emergent Literacy: Children's Books from 0 to 3, page 129

Origin

Partial calque of German Wimmelbilderbuch (“teeming picture book”).

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APA

wimmelbook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wimmelbook

MLA

“wimmelbook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wimmelbook. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wimmelbook,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wimmelbook.

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