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Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever (Giant Little Golden Book)

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Manufacturer: Golden Books
Brand: Random House
List Price: $15.99
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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.


DESCRIPTION:

Manufacturer Maximum Age: 99
Binding: School & Library Binding
Brand: Random House
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.1
EAN: 9780307155108
Format: Special Edition
ISBN: 0307155102
Label: Golden Books
Manufacturer: Golden Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 72
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher: Golden Books
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Release Date: 1999-09-01
Studio: Golden Books


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: This edition vs. 1st edition, a comparison, FYI
Comment: I wrote this for the Unabridged edition, but I thought it would be useful to post it here as well:

A few notes on the differences between the unabridged "1400 Objects" edition of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, published 1963-1979 vs. the later 1980- "Revised" version. (Note not all post 1980 printings include the word revised on the cover, but they are all the revised edition.)

Golden books asked for a the late edit, which consists of three basic changes:
1. Political correctness, more animals are made "female" by attaching bows to their illustrations in the later edition.
2. 20 pages were removed, and lighter weight paper was used, to reduce printing costs.
3. Complexity of the vocabulary was reduced.

Someone noted the price difference, demand for the longer and more complex original exceeds supply, as it is out of print, and not likely to reappear.

While both versions are fine books, and an asset to any child's library, those seeking a cheaper book may seek the edited 70 page Abridged edition (anything 1980 or later,) but parents with the budget to cover it would probably want to consider the original, which goes more in depth.

A brief example to illustrate the point. Both editions have a section on art, describing colors and how they mix, paints, crayons, pencils and erasers. The later edition stops here. The earlier "Unabridged" goes on to introduce artists, sketches, canvas, murals, finger painting, still lifes, models, palletes, etc.

This wider reach of vocabulary and concepts is thematic of the 20 pages which were removed in the 1980 edit. The later edition still makes a fine starter and welcome edition to any child's library.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great vocabulary builder.
Comment: I have bought this book over and over again as a gift for everyone I know that is having a baby. My own kids absolutely loved it. It is wonderful for having converstions with little ones about the pictures and building vocabulary. No child should miss out on it!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Condition of the book
Comment: The book was advartised to be in excellent condition however the binding in the book is torn almost halfway thruogh

Customer Rating:
Summary: I love Richard Scarry books!
Comment: I love these books by Richard Scarry. I bought them when my children were small, and I bought this one for my 5 month old grandson. Even though he doesn't understand the words and pictures, he loves the colors, and there is so much to look at that they really entertain him. The other day he was kind of cranky so I sat in the rocker with him and read two of the books. He was asleep before I finished the second book, but I kept reading because I wanted to see what happened. You can't go wrong with these books for children of all ages!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book if you don't mind having to read it all the time!
Comment: My 17month daughter loves this book! I was into Richard Scarry books growing up and really wanted my baby to like it. Initially I was afraid the illustrations would be too busy for her, but that is clearly not the case. This book is one of three books (the others are big book of animals and book of words) she brings to me just about every thirty minutes, which is driving me a little crazy but I'll just have to deal with it. She really gets into the scenes especially scenes of the circus, zoo, farm, grocery, home, beach, ships, trains, etc. and has built up quite the vocabulary. She's saying the names of the animals and their sounds, bodyparts, the landscape such as tree, sun, moon, cloud, flower and can point to most anything in the pages. The scenes of the airport, trucks and "when you grow up" aren't engaging her yet but I'm sure later when she gets it more.

Richard Scarry books are a beloved classic, they are and will be on the bookshelf in our home (until the grandkids). ;)

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