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Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever (Little Golden Book)

Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever (Little Golden Book)

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Bookworm
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book bad printing
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 24 August 2018
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This is a classic and I have read it to my nephews and nieces over the years. Unfortunately this edition seems to be lacking in quality. The paper is flimsy and the binding seems to 'eat up' some of the print. It is a lovely book but the print and bind quality are below par.
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shradha
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 25 September 2016
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5.0 out of 5 stars 可愛い
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on 6 January 2023
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リチャードスキャーリーの絵はとにかく可愛い。3才のお子様に英語を教えておりますが、この本を使って物の名称を教えています。私がこの絵を見て楽しんでいます。
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5.0 out of 5 stars 可愛い
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on 6 January 2023
リチャードスキャーリーの絵はとにかく可愛い。3才のお子様に英語を教えておりますが、この本を使って物の名称を教えています。私がこの絵を見て楽しんでいます。
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élisabeth moreau
5.0 out of 5 stars Conforme à la description
Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 10 November 2022
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antonio di pierro
5.0 out of 5 stars Bello
Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on 22 October 2022
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Paul Bulger
1.0 out of 5 stars Random and Tedious
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 2 September 2018
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Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever is everything I hate about children's literature. I know the assumption is, that because something is for kids, the barrier of entry for the quality of a product doesn't need to be very high, since a thing doesn't usually need to be of particularly good quality to hold a child's attention, but I'm not a fan of this assumption.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting all children's authors to be as brilliant as Dr. Suess or Margaret Wise Brown. I do find many of the books I've read to my baby to be irritating, because they seemed to be written by mediocre writers who think stringing together random words that rhyme in a couplet makes for poetry, giving no other thought to structure, stress, or meter, because, you know, "it's for kids, and what do kids know, right?" But even those irritating little children's books don't attract my hatred the way this little word book has.

Removing the self-aggrandizing adjective, "best", this little word book is exactly what it advertises itself to be, a book with words in it. The way it sets itself up isn't what annoys me, it's a fairly basic setup. There's Huckle cat, his sister Sally, and his parents. From the offset, it seems as though it's simply going to be Huckle bringing you through a day in his life, showing you all of the commonplace objects he encounters in his life, day-to-day. We start with the clothes he wears on the first page, the next page we see his house and its rooms, the next page we see the kitchen more closely and the objects you find in the kitchen, on the next page we see him in the car with his family and all the vehicles he may encounter on the road, then we see some the town center, then we see the inside of a supermarket. It's not a grand set-up for a book, but at least there's connective tissue carrying you through from site to site, simply presenting random objects you might see from place to place, and giving you the names for them. It's fairly tedious, and annoying to read, but it's fine. When this book really starts to annoy me, is after the super-market, we simply abandon the character we're introduced to in the beginning entirely, and then we're shown three more random sites with no rhyme or reason: a farm, an airport, and a harbor, which makes no sense, because up until this point, we've been introduced to everyday things through the eyes of Huckle, then suddenly we drop Huckle and are introduced to some random sites, all of which are places most children would never see day to day, and we're given a borderline useless vocabulary to understanding or successfully navigating each of these sites. Then, the book pivots again and we're given four full pages of ABC's, and then the last page of the book brings us back to Huckle with a list of some of his body parts before ending.

While I tend to go easy on children's books, especially books that my baby happens to like me reading to her, this word book is the apotheosis of lazily slapped together children's books, and I have read A LOT of lazy children's books. Richard Scarry put barely any discernible thought at all into constructing a children's word book with any sense of logic or connective tissue, and what tiny little scrap of thought he did put into the foundation of this book is abandoned halfway through.

I honestly don't think I'm asking for much when all I'm wanting out of a children's book is some semblance of connective tissue to hold the images and words included in the book together, or at least a discernible train of logic. A good example of a children's book with seemingly random words and definitions would be A Hold is to Dig, by Ruth Krauss, which is a book full of silly definitions, but the train of logic pulling you from one definition to the other always feels clear. It's organized, guided randomness, if that makes any sense at all. There's a lot of care, and thought that goes into each silly definition, and the next silly definition that comes after it This word book is just thoughtless, chaotic, lazy randomness. And it is everything I hate about the worst children's books have to offer.

Just because it's for children, doesn't mean the author doesn't have to put any thought into it at all.
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Joan
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 on 6 October 2021
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I do advice to buy the harder book since I bought a hardcover but the inside is normal paper a toddler will destroy this really fast
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Limepickle
4.0 out of 5 stars Looking for Lowly worm!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 October 2020
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Bought for little grandson so that he can discover the joys of searching for Lowly Worm just as his daddy did! There's lots to talk about in this book and look at together .Engaging and attractive. Wish it were a little larger.
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Ido Weinberg
4.0 out of 5 stars Tedious but charming. Takes getting used to
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 21 July 2018
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I know Richard Scarry is a brand. And I like the detailed drawings. It took me time to get used to this book.
At first, I did not see the value of a book that lists items. You cannot really "read" it to a child. And a child who is old enough to read for themselves will likely not persevere with the "lessons" that can be tedious.
But then I got it. The way to enjoy this book is to ask your child to find various objects that you name (for instance "where is Huckle cat?"). When you do that, the book can be enjoyed for quite a while at a time.
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anon
5.0 out of 5 stars Beware Kindle people! Stupid me!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 December 2012
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I forgot, didn't I? I wanted to try this out on my Kindle, to engage my grandchildren. I love the hard copy Scarry books, (hence the 5 stars, not his fault I'm dim) but completely forgot my Kindle is NOT in colour. As I said, stupid me.
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