Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever!

Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever!
From Random House Books for Young Readers


Product Description
Illus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words.


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Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #13656 in Books
Published on: 1979-09-12
Released on: 1979-09-12
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
48 pages

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Editorial Reviews
Review
"Kids will enjoy the surprises as Scarry teaches the alphabet, numbers, and vocabulary."--The New York Times.

Review
"Kids will enjoy the surprises as Scarry teaches the alphabet, numbers, and vocabulary."--The New York Times.

Card catalog description
Introduces the alphabet, counting, shapes and sizes, colors, parts of the body, months of the year, manners, nursery rhymes, and more.


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Customer Reviews
A must have
A childhood favorite of mine this was a gift to my children. This book covers everything! There are so many things on each page that each time we open it we are talking and looking at different things. Great for kids that are just starting to use 'words' as well as those that are old pros. Richard Scarry makes it fun!

Best First Book
Someone gave me Richard's Scary's Best First Book Ever when I had my baby back in the 80's. My son loved it. We read it so much that I taped it and taped it. When my nephew's wives had their babies, I gave one to each of them. They loved it. Now I give the book as a gift whenever I am invited to a baby shower.

Odd but useful
While there are some oddities in the book (like the parents sleeping in separate beds and Mommy Cat always wearing a dress), it's still a good and solid introduction for vocabulary building. Every page has every item labeled in a variety of situations and places: home, the kitchen, the living room, the laundry room, school, the grocery store, an ice cream parlor, and so forth. It also introduces the basic parts of the body, color theory and counting.

Richard Scarry's books often times contain a running gag of some sort. In Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, readers are asked to find Gold Bug on every page. In this book, readers can follow Mr. Fumble as he tries to catch his windblown hat.The question of where's Mr. Fumble's hat and the often times surreal things depicted and labeled are what make these books so much fun to read.