We borrowed this one through our local library and the READS system with Overdrive to my Kindle Fire.

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Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry was published in 1963 and became a best-selling children's book. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. Alan Taylor, a senior editor for the photo section of The Atlantic, has made acomparison showingthe changes made betweenthe 1963 and 1991 editions of the Best Word Book Ever.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! We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there?

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His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. 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. Scarry had been illustrating children's books since 1950, but this was his first as both author and illustrator. 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. The characters are all anthropomorphic animals, often cats, bears, rabbits and mice, but many other animals are also used.We start with the clothes he wears on the first page, the next page we see his house and its rooms, the next page we see the kitchen more closely and the objects you find in the kitchen, on the next page we see him in the car with his family and all the vehicles he may encounter on the road, then we see some the town center, then we see the inside of a supermarket. If you would like to introduce your child to the many books of Richard Scarry, this is a great book to start out with. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The adult should not hit them over the head with this, but let it happen naturally as they become interested in print. I really remember this one my little brother Bryan is nine years younger than me and this was one of his favorites.

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Removing the self-aggrandizing adjective, "best", this little word book is exactly what it advertises itself to be, a book with words in it. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Then, the book pivots again and we're given four full pages of ABC's, and then the last page of the book brings us back to Huckle with a list of some of his body parts before ending.It points out daily household items and roles, and attempts to modernize gender roles by having the dad wash dishes and referring to certain jobs as person rather than "man" in a middle class hetero family. The pages have a small amount of text, which often challenge the reader to find something on the page.