Customer Reviews

Richard Scarry's bedtime stories (A Random House pictureback)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Great stories with great characters, but if you've already purchased "Funniest Stories Ever..." then don't bother with "Bedtime Stories" because "Bedtime..." merely contains a subset of the stories found in "Funniest", with no new material what-so-ever.

This was needless to say rather disappointing to find out, following the online purchase.

This edition preserves the original Richard Scarry artwork and text from the 1970's that I grew up with (and loved) as a kid. Some of the new (1990 and on) editions of Scarry stories have art that is slightly "off" from Scarry's style, and text that does not convey Scarry's wit and fun storytelling style. Rest assured that this edition has both of those!

This is a delightful books for young readers -- it falls in the 4-8 age range, but is probably more appropriate for 3-5 age range. Some of our favorite characters, Lowly, Huckle and friends ease younger sleepers into sleep. It was particularly helpful in lulling to sleep a newly-minted older brother who was eager not to miss any of his new baby's "action." Richard Scarry is wonderful at that!

As usual Richard Scarry's illustrations are wonderful. However, the first story in this book is about pirates and a "ferocious monster". Not sure why you would include a story like this before bedtime?? The other stories are fine, but if your child gets scared easily maybe the other stories would be better.

This book is great for bedtime. Our three month old daughter loves the pictures and short stories.

Ordered this for our two and a half year old. He likes the stories and they are indeed cute stories but they are not bedtime related stories which is what we were expecting. Of course, ANY story could be a bedtime story which I'm sure is what the compilers of this book had going on.

Enjoyed the book, my issue is my fault I was looking for a book with a lot of short stories. This one has about 4 but if I would have read I would see that. Great stories, I wanted a book I could read to my baby and this fits the bill.
Fast shipper, great condition just as described..thanks will order from this seller again.

I'm extremely disappointed with the quality of this book - despite being a picture book, the text is independent of the pictures and the pictures are tiny on an iPad. As far as kids go, it's a sad excuse for a book. Not worth buying and I'm sorely disappointed in the quality of the experience. Save your money.

I love Richard Scarry's books and as a paperback this gets 5 stars but the e-book is a disappointment.
The picture is on one page and the text is on another. So, let's start at the beginning of the book. We turn to the first page, it is a little cat in a boat, we don't know what is going on until we swipe the screen and get to the next page that has the words. The kids have nothing to look at while I read all of the words because the picture was on the page before. I don't know if my kids are just impatient but they really like to look at the pictures when I read so this e-book was kind of a bummer.

I read this e-book on my kindle fire, maybe it would work better on other devices.
The pictures on the Kindle fire were very small, they didn't take up the whole screen.

I guess I am sticking for traditional children's books for now.

Oh, I have bought a few Dr. Seuss's story books by Oceanhouse Media, Inc. They are an application and they work really well. If you were going to buy a book for your device I would suggest the ones that are applications instead of the regular e-book form.

I wish they had a separate place to review the e-books and the paperbacks.

Edit:
I discovered I can flip my kindle vertically and then the words and pictures will be on the same page but then the pictures are pretty small.

I loved Scarry's books as a child. So, I was excited to see this advertised as one of the "Kindle Fire Books for Children." I am very disappointed on the formatting of the ebook. The pictures are tiny. In addition, there are some pages that are only text, that correspond to the picture-only page before it. My 2.5 year old son wants to turn the page to the next picture before I'm done with the text. Stick to buying the real book.