Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth 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.

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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' etcI liked how the family are portrayed for the most part - it's always good to see the Daddy do some of the washing up! 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.

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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]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. Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry was published in 1963 and became a best-selling children's book. Scarry had been illustrating children's books since 1950, but this was his first as both author and illustrator. The book also marked the beginning of the author's work on the "Best Ever" series. 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.

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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 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. Publisher: Random House Children's Books (with Giant Little Golden Book), September 1999, Hardcover ( ISBN 0-307-15510-2) a b Liukkonen, Petri. "Richard Scarry (1919-1994)". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 2 January 2008.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. 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. Le Grand Livre de Mots Francais / Anglais : Best Word Book Ever French / English (French Edition) (A.M. ALB.ILL.A.) First of all, tapping into the voracious (unconscious) desires of the three and four year old to build vocabulary... I remember looking at this book endlessly, never tiring of naming--naming naming naming--a distinct developmental function both enjoyable and useful. The three year old vacuums it up, and it all becomes a part of their language skills.