chapter book

American  

[chap-ter book] / ˈtʃæp tər ˌbʊk /

noun

• chapter books
  plural

1. a book divided into chapters, especially a book of fiction, written for children whose reading and comprehension skills have advanced beyond picture books.

   Can you suggest a good chapter book for reading with my seven-year-old at bedtime?

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chapter books
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of chapter book

First recorded in 1985–90

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

chapter book

I didn't want to write a chapter book because we're in the age of low attention spans.

From Salon ● May 18, 2024

Neither she nor Sofia’s dad are big readers, Herrera said, and she’d never seen her youngest tackle a chapter book as large as “Charlotte’s Web,” the book Sofia insisted her mother buy that day.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

Introducing the new and improved hammer: This week, Amazon released the Kindle Kids Edition, “ideal for both beginner and experienced chapter book readers.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019

That was how Roald Dahl’s longtime editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Stephen Roxburgh, described an early draft of the cantankerous author’s last long chapter book for children.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013

There was a discarded recorder on the floor that she had once planned to master and a chapter book on Abraham Lincoln from the time she decided to become an amateur historian.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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