Richard Scarry wrote many different kinds of books. He delighted in telling funny stories, and even wrote several very clever detective stories.

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The original edition contains over 1,400 labelled pictures and the book sold over seven million copies in 12 years. [1] [2] While I tend to go easy on children's books, especially books that my baby happens to like me reading to her, this word book is the apotheosis of lazily slapped together children's books, and I have read A LOT of lazy children's books. Richard Scarry put barely any discernible thought at all into constructing a children's word book with any sense of logic or connective tissue, and what tiny little scrap of thought he did put into the foundation of this book is abandoned halfway through. Most changes have to do with gender roles: some occupations got their names changed to gender-neutral words (“fireman” to “firefighter”) while others hadgender-identifying connotations removed (“pretty stewardess” is just a “flight attendant” now). The book also removed all mentions of cowboys and Indians. Sections such as “Out West” or “Buildings” were left out, as well as those on paintings and music making, to remove things like churches, cathedrals and French Foreign Legion forts.

Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever is everything I hate about children's literature. I know the assumption is, that because something is for kids, the barrier of entry for the quality of a product doesn't need to be very high, since a thing doesn't usually need to be of particularly good quality to hold a child's attention, but I'm not a fan of this assumption. I honestly don't think I'm asking for much when all I'm wanting out of a children's book is some semblance of connective tissue to hold the images and words included in the book together, or at least a discernible train of logic. A good example of a children's book with seemingly random words and definitions would be A Hold is to Dig, by Ruth Krauss, which is a book full of silly definitions, but the train of logic pulling you from one definition to the other always feels clear. It's organized, guided randomness, if that makes any sense at all. There's a lot of care, and thought that goes into each silly definition, and the next silly definition that comes after it This word book is just thoughtless, chaotic, lazy randomness. And it is everything I hate about the worst children's books have to offer.

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Everyone has to learn to read, to write, to know the alphabet, to count, to learn good manners, and many other things. In trying to teach these things I like to use animals dressed as humans; it is more fun!” Ottawa, Ukrainian Publishing. Ukrainian-English-French adaptation of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever - 2nd interactive Internet edition. Hardbound. Condition: VG. Scarry, Richard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tiny bit of tape missing from spine.RICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. This is a very cute picture book. It is mainly to boost a child's vocabulary and help them identify things in the world around them. We borrowed this one through our local library and the READS system with Overdrive to my Kindle Fire. This is such an awesome way to borrow library books. I hope that they will continue to broaden their availability with other books soon. If these as eBooks did not cost the same as the physical copies I'd buy them by the dozens as they became available. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illus. with cold. drawings. 4to. pict. bds. Covers very worn and rubbed, contents occasionally marked, a fair copy.

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A pictorial vocabulary book with words grouped under common activities such as mealtime and basic concepts such as weather Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever / El mejor libro de palabras de Richard Scarry". Barnes and Noble. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17 . Retrieved 2008-01-03. I liked how the family are portrayed for the most part - it's always good to see the Daddy do some of the washing up! I think the book starts off with a bit of a narrative (introfucing the family, following them as they go out shopping), then becomes more like a list of places and words associated with them, rather than about the family. It also ends in a bit of a rush. By 1980 the book had been edited to remove some of what became perceived as stereotypical roles for females and to update terminology. [6] At least 14 changes were made, including changing a male "policeman" to a female "police officer" on the front cover, and changing "handsome pilot" to "pilot" and "pretty stewardess" into "flight attendant." [6]

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Now when I realise that Best Little Word Book Ever was originally published in 1978, I (personally) do find it positive and for the 1970s still rather rare and avant-garde that in the as main characters featured Cat family, author and illustrator Richard Scarry also has the father doing his share of the housework, that for example, while Mother Cat is cooking, Father Cat is equally present in the kitchen washing dishes (with all family members later helping with shopping for groceries at the supermarket). Following his great success with Best Word Book Ever, Richard Scarry went on to create a large number of other children's books in the same style with similar animals, a similar dominance of the art over the text and even similar names, including Best First Book Ever, Best Little Word Book Ever and his last book Richard Scarry's Biggest Word Book Ever. Various Best Ever books were adapted to video and a television series, " The Busy World of Richard Scarry," ran on Showtime from 1994 to 1997. Some of the words seem a bit complicated for younger readers. I am not sure how many children will remember 'measuring spoons','flight attendant', 'propeller plane' etc Publisher: Random House Children's Books (with Giant Little Golden Book), September 1999, Hardcover ( ISBN 0-307-15510-2)Secondarily, the book can help a child to read. The adult should not hit them over the head with this, but let it happen naturally as they become interested in print. None of this "Let's sound it out" business; wait until they take an interest, and guide them calmly, without that tension and whoop-de-do that so often comes from a parent when a child first start to look at words. Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever! (Vocabulary Development Series, LeapFrog LeapPad Level 1) The book was first published in the United States in 1963, followed by a British edition published in 1964 by Paul Hamlyn and reprinted in 1965. The Best Word Book Ever has been reprinted and revised many times since. The book has been translated into a number of other languages, including a bilingual edition in English and Spanish [3] and one in Ukrainian. [4] Editing the Best Word Book Ever [ edit ] Ukrainian Adaptation of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever - Ukrainian-English-French, 2nd interactive Internet edition". InfoUkes-Ukrainian Publications . Retrieved 2008-01-03.