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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 horn·book /ˈhɔrnˌbʊk/
 小孩學習用的文字板,入門書

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Horn·book n.
 1. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. “He teaches boys the hornbook.”
 2. A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.