Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever! (Hardcover)

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

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

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Product Details

• Reading level: Baby-Preschool
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (September 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394842502
• ISBN-13: 978-0394842509
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 10.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,698 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Send this to all parents who love to read to their children!, September 7, 1999

By	"[e-mail]" (Grosse Pointe, MI) - See all my reviews

our daughter, who is 17 months, requests this book at least once a day. she has learned many of the action words, in addition to identifying pictures. the 'scenes' organize an infant's thoughts to associate the pictures with the backgrounds. this book is outstanding.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title is no exagerration, November 9, 2000

By A Customer

We first saw this book at the library and of course brought it home. My two-year-old daughter loved it right away; she especially likes Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm. It is a nice big size with so much to see on each page, children are instantly captivated. Each two-page spread focuses on a different background, for example, shopping at the grocery store, going to the doctor, a cut-away of a house showing each room, a day at school, etc. One page demands that the reader turn the book lengthwise to view a blow-up of Huckle Cat, with the body parts labeled. My daughter instantly thought it was meant to be a page from a calendar, and it was her favorite page to look at. This book is fun for parents to read to their little ones--I highly recommend it!

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too cluttered, July 23, 2004

By	Genevive (Redlands, Ca) - See all my reviews

I am a big fan of Richard Scary's and we have a broad collection of his "Best Ever" books and videos, but this is the single item that I feel isn't done well. First of all, it is so large it's unwieldy with even one small child in your lap. But the real problem is in the layout. There are 2 kinds of pages: a single large picture that contains small items, like a large house with characters and activities within it, or a big white sheet with 40 or 50 small individual pictures crammed in. The house type are great, but regrettably few. The majority are the second, and so cluttered that it is very difficult for younger preschoolers--much less babies--to differentiate between images. The effect is a wild cacophony of confusing colors, cars, cutlery, and emotional little pigs cluttering the pages.

My family much prefers Scary's "Best Storybook Ever." Smaller (at about 10" by 7" instead of 12" by 10") but much thicker, this book is easier to manage in size and matter. I disagree with its recommendation for only slightly older children, because it still contains colors, numbers, shapes, animals, counting, manners, emotions, activities, months of the year, and the alphabet, but this time with more spacing and order. I think all it is missing from "First Book" is body parts. A collection of little storybooks about the above subjects, it has fewer and clearer concepts per page. In addition, "Storybook" also contains 82 actual character stories for the older preschooler/younger grade-schooler, as well as a good collection of Mother Goose rhymes. "Best Storybook Ever" will grow with your child, teach your child, and entertain your child much better than "Best First Book Ever" will.