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

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• 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: 12.6 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,079 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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97 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Willis L. Burroughs "Daddy O" (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Theodore Bush "gyffes" (New England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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??