Richard Scarry wrote many different kinds of books. He delighted in telling funny stories, and even wrote several very clever detective stories. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting all children's authors to be as brilliant as Dr. Suess or Margaret Wise Brown. I do find many of the books I've read to my baby to be irritating, because they seemed to be written by mediocre writers who think stringing together random words that rhyme in a couplet makes for poetry, giving no other thought to structure, stress, or meter, because, you know, "it's for kids, and what do kids know, right?" But even those irritating little children's books don't attract my hatred the way this little word book has. Ukrainian Adaptation of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever - Ukrainian-English-French, 2nd interactive Internet edition". InfoUkes-Ukrainian Publications . Retrieved 2008-01-03. Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever! (Vocabulary Development Series, LeapFrog LeapPad Level 1)

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Hardbound. Condition: VG. Scarry, Richard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tiny bit of tape missing from spine. 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 ]The original edition contains over 1,400 labelled pictures and the book sold over seven million copies in 12 years. [1] [2] 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). 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. 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 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.

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Le Grand Livre de Mots Francais / Anglais : Best Word Book Ever French / English (French Edition) (A.M. ALB.ILL.A.) 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. 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] 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.Publisher: Random House Children's Books (with Giant Little Golden Book), September 1999, Hardcover ( ISBN 0-307-15510-2) Kenny and Kathy Bear and their Busytown friends introduce new and familiar names for objects grouped by subject, theme, and setting, in the city and on the farm, at the dentist and at the grocer's, in the kitchen and at the circus and all the places they frequent. 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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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. 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. This is the best LITTLE word book ever. If you're looking for the Best Word Book Ever, it's no longer in print. They made it politically correct and removed alot of the charm and humor. No more handsome pilot. Now he's just pilot.Something that jarred me was the spelling of axe. I am so used to it being 'axe' that when I read 'ax' it made me question the reliability of the book, until I discovered it was an alternate spelling. Ottawa, Ukrainian Publishing. Ukrainian-English-French adaptation of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever - 2nd interactive Internet edition. 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. 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.