Best Word Book Ever

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In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. By 1980 the book had been edited to remove some of what became perceived as stereotypical roles for females and to update terminology.

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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. I remember looking at this book endlessly, never tiring of naming--naming naming naming--a distinct developmental function both enjoyable and useful. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. 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.First of all, tapping into the voracious (unconscious) desires of the three and four year old to build vocabulary. 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.

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The characters are all anthropomorphic animals, often cats, bears, rabbits and mice, but many other animals are also used.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. It's a decent enough book though, and with a bit of imagination when reading it aloud, I am sure that children will enjoy it. 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! The individual letters in the lines of text are not even (some float above the bottom of the line, some drop below it). On each page as the story goes on, there are objects on the page that are related to what the text says, which is a good way to connect words to an image.

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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. Ukrainian Adaptation of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever - Ukrainian-English-French, 2nd interactive Internet edition". I love Richard Scarry from my own childhood and I'm delighted to share these with my daughters, especially my beginning preschooler. 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 book has been translated into a number of other languages, including a bilingual edition in English and Spanish [3] and one in Ukrainian.Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry was published in 1963 and became a best-selling children's book. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

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Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.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. It's not a grand set-up for a book, but at least there's connective tissue carrying you through from site to site, simply presenting random objects you might see from place to place, and giving you the names for them. 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. We borrowed this one through our local library and the READS system with Overdrive to my Kindle Fire. But even those irritating little children's books don't attract my hatred the way this little word book has.