wimmelbook

English

Etymology

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

Noun

wimmelbook (plural wimmelbooks)

1. A picture book containing large drawings of detailed scenes full of people, animals, and objects.
   • 2011, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Emergent Literacy: Children's Books from 0 to 3, page 129:

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