Best Word Book Ever

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Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. I am so used to it being 'axe' that when I read 'ax' it made me question the reliability of the book, until I discovered it was an alternate spelling. 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. 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.

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The art for Best Word Book Ever was first drawn in, then painted in, which was by that time Scarry's normal method. 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. I love Richard Scarry from my own childhood and I'm delighted to share these with my daughters, especially my beginning preschooler.

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. Removing the self-aggrandizing adjective, "best", this little word book is exactly what it advertises itself to be, a book with words in it.

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Alan Taylor, a senior editor for the photo section of The Atlantic, has made acomparison showingthe changes made betweenthe 1963 and 1991 editions of the Best Word Book Ever.He is also well-known for his educational books which help teach children words and spelling, how to count, and to always have nice manners. First of all, tapping into the voracious (unconscious) desires of the three and four year old to build vocabulary. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages.

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We borrowed this one through our local library and the READS system with Overdrive to my Kindle Fire. The pages have a small amount of text, which often challenge the reader to find something on the page. 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. But even those irritating little children's books don't attract my hatred the way this little word book has.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It's a decent enough book though, and with a bit of imagination when reading it aloud, I am sure that children will enjoy it. By 1980 the book had been edited to remove some of what became perceived as stereotypical roles for females and to update terminology. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.