[ noun ] a book prepared for use in schools or colleges <noun.communication> his economics textbook is in its tenth editionthe professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy
Schoolbook \School"book`\, n. A book used in schools for learning lessons.
"It's the biggest year in the history of the Western world as far as reading adoptions go," says Donald Eklund, a schoolbook specialist at the Association of American Publishers.
"I remember he sat me down and he taught me some verses that weren't in the schoolbook version.
A typical schoolbook for white children taught that blacks were inferior. "The white stands on a much higher plane of civilization and is more developed.