Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day [Hardcover]

Richard Scarry (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Illus. in full color. Shows and tells what busy people do every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and grow food.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Positively guaranteed to please any small child."--The New Yorker.  

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Illus. in full color. Shows and tells what busy people do every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and grow food.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; Abridged edition (March 12, 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394818237
• ISBN-13: 978-0394818238
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 0.4 x 12.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Careers
  • #89 in Books > Children's Books > Humor

More About the Author

Richard Scarry is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER!
His books are always filled with fun, and always filled with fun pictures
which children can pour over again and again and again.
His books have sold many millions of copies around the world, and are
currently published in over twenty languages.
Richard Scarry was born in Boston, Massachussetts in 1919. He was
married to Patricia Scarry, also a children's writer. Their son Huck
carries-on Richard Scarry's work today.
Richard Scarry passed away at his home of Gstaad, Switzerland in 1994.
Whenever asked how old he was, he would always put up one hand and
laugh: " Five!" . And he was always right !

Customer Reviews

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129 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Children's Book Ever, July 14, 2004

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W Burroughs "Daddy O" (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day (Hardcover)

Wish I could give this 10 stars. I discovered this book as a preschooler in 1968. My mom would take me to the local library every week. I checked it out from the library and I was hooked. I wanted to check it out at every visit, so my mom had the library order a copy for me. I remember even before I could read the words, I completely understood the story from the illustrations. I still have that original edition. It is tatered but still intact. I bought another copy this year for my preschool sons. They absolutely love it as well as the other Scarry book I had as a child, Busy Busy World. The newer book is the abridged edition. The abridged edition has 63 pages as compared to the ~95 pages in the original. They removed 4 stories from the original: busy (stay at home) mom, water treatment plants, electricity and how we get it, and Sgt. Murphy the Busytown policeman. Why? Somebody at the publisher must have had a lobotomy. Anyway, we keep the original up in a closet to read only with adult supervision. The new one is on the shelf, readily accesible to the kids.
This book (even the abridged edition) is an absolute classic.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately it is abridged, April 11, 2004

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j-beda (Peterborough, ON) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day (Hardcover)

This really is an excellent book, but if your memories are of the complete 96 page edition, you may be dissapointed in this 64 page abridged version. Losing about 1/3 of the excellent stories is a bit sad. Huckle's plane trip for example is not present.

What is left is really excellent, but what was cut was great too.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FABULOUS but WHY IS IT ABRIDGED???, March 28, 2005

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Theodore Bush (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day (Hardcover)

This book is incredible, hence the 5 stars, but I ABHOR the abridged version and long for the pieces that were cut. Why is this the only version being foisted 'pon us??