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Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever!
From the cheery sun on the first page, to the sleepy moon on the last, and throughout all 290 pages in between, there are stories, rhymes and fun with the one-and-only Richard Scarry. Classic tales, alphabet and counting stories, lots of new words and concepts, and visits around town, to the airport, and across the world make this essential book that will captivate even th...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
June 8th 2000
by Golden Books
(first published January 1st 1969)
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I finished reading my twenty fifth and sixth books in English for this year without using a dictionary. My twenty fifth book is a child book and sixth book is a book for adults. Each book has around 100 short stories, so I'd read one story per a day around for three months.
I think this idea is really great because after three month I can finish reading the book. Plus, it's not difficult for me to keep reading a short story in English every single day. In Japanese we have a proverb ”塵も積もれば山となる” (...more
I think this idea is really great because after three month I can finish reading the book. Plus, it's not difficult for me to keep reading a short story in English every single day. In Japanese we have a proverb ”塵も積もれば山となる” (...more
Jan 23, 2012
Little Miss and the Legomeister
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5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
nursery-rhymes,
collections-of-stories
This book was my husband's when he was a child. It's seen a lotta love. It's missing the cover and some outside pages. Legomeister spent hours pouring over all the vehicle pictures, and we loved to read the nursery rhymes and stories.
Little Miss really liked "I am a Bunny" by Ole Risom. It shows the bunny in four different seasons. And "The Bunny Book" by Patricia Scarry, where everyone asks Baby Bunny what he wants to be when he grows up. (A daddy.) These longer stories weren't my favorite, exc...more
Little Miss really liked "I am a Bunny" by Ole Risom. It shows the bunny in four different seasons. And "The Bunny Book" by Patricia Scarry, where everyone asks Baby Bunny what he wants to be when he grows up. (A daddy.) These longer stories weren't my favorite, exc...more
I loved this as a child and my 15 month old daughter also delights when "dada" reads from this book during her goodnight routine.
One of my very favorite books! Where would I be without it?
My Mom used to read this to me every night.
Mama got this as a gift at a baby shower. She thought of giving it away, because she did not think it looked very fun. I am so glad that she did not. I love ALL the stories in the book. There are 82 stories. But, I have four favorites that I go to again and again.
When I was very sick and had to stay in bed I asked to have this book with me. I would turn on my tummy and slowly turn each page. It gave me great comfort to have a book I love with me when I felt yucky. At night, when I go to bed I b...more
When I was very sick and had to stay in bed I asked to have this book with me. I would turn on my tummy and slowly turn each page. It gave me great comfort to have a book I love with me when I felt yucky. At night, when I go to bed I b...more
Featuring 82 short stories and poems, this book also features some of the most beautiful imagery i've seen before. "Words To Learn", for instance, teaches children about the names and locations of body parts, the months of the year, the names of designated names of family members, and the days of the week and are accompanied by drawings. There are also stories that deal with the seasons, colors, and how to be nice one another.
This was my favorite book when I was younger I read it so many times.
Great kids book.
Funny. This book would be best for ages 4 and up. Maybe a little younger.
This book is funny. I remember everything that happened. When I read this book it I thought it was the funniest thing ever but that was awhile ago. I love this random book because it is easy to read, and quite funny. I think everyone should read this books. So read it now!
~Bookworm~
Great kids book.
Funny. This book would be best for ages 4 and up. Maybe a little younger.
This book is funny. I remember everything that happened. When I read this book it I thought it was the funniest thing ever but that was awhile ago. I love this random book because it is easy to read, and quite funny. I think everyone should read this books. So read it now!
~Bookworm~
My kids love looking at this book in the car...lots of fun pictures and stories. A number of the pages are scenes with everything labeled or different concepts (colors, counting etc). It's a great book to take along for quiet reading while at the doctors or someplace else since it's large enough to keep them entertained for awhile.
This book has so much sentimental value to me as it was one of the staples of my daughter's reading diet for years. We really loved Lowly Worm. I adored how the stories were morally engaging without being didactic or pendantic or boring. I think I even may have kept it, although it was rather falling apart. Oh the memories!
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Meet Huckle Cat, Loly Worm and other fun characters in this wonderful book. Pages and pages of great artwork that will entertain a child with just trying to find all the items on the pages. It's a great book to pick up and fill time with your kids, my kids wore out 3 copies just from the constant reading of the book.
My first grade teacher gave everyone in her class a copy of this. I read it, and re-read it, and re-read it. It didn't exactly teach me to read, but it certainly helped. And Yes, I still have it, falling apart though it is, poor thing.
Want a good book for a child beginning to read? Look no further.
Want a good book for a child beginning to read? Look no further.
I loved this book as a child! I have such fond memories of my mom reading this to me at our cabin and then tucking me into the pull out couch mattress next to the smoldering coals of the dying fire. However, many parts would not be considered "politically correct" today:)
My siblings and I grew up with this book, and so for Christmas one year, my mom sent all of us our very own copy! I loved this book when I was little, and my kids love it now too! It's a classic! Great pictures, of course and cute cute stories!
Each night we read one or two stories to my littlest ones it is never enough for them my two year old will beg “adin adin" and now as soon as he feels a little tiered he grabs the book and his blankie and brings it strait to me.
I owned this book back when I was little. Have no clue as to what happened to it. I think I lost it when my family and I moved twice. Loved reading this book all the time when I was little. Richard Scarry is a great author!
I still have a few of my books, well read and held together by tape. I read them to my son when he was little. I will read them to the grandkids one day. Scarry created a colorfully and exciting world for this child to visit.
Found my copy of this at home that I received for Christmas decades ago and brought it back for my kids to enjoy. They are amazed at the sheer volume of stories that could be read in the book! Cute lessons and illustrations.
One of my husband's childhood favorites. We ordered it for my daughter for Christmas and she loves it. It's a great collection of stories, intermixed with fun educational sections (to teach kids colors, animals, etc.).
One of my all time favorite storybooks! I adored every page, every illustration and every story. I always enjoyed having to find the worm on every page! Such a wonderful storyteller.
Richard Scarry books are much too cool to be given to a first born, so I had to sneak a look at my younger brother's collection ... like when I was about 13. Better late than never.
I was saddened to find that newer versions of this book have removed some stories in what appears to be an exercise in political correctness censorship.
my favorite book to browse thru from my childhood. my mother recently bought me a copy because we donated the one we used to own.
wonderful illustrations.
wonderful illustrations.
One of my absolute favourites as a child, so full of images and stories and adventures, I could spend hours absorbed in this book.
Lots of pictures. Great for my kids to look through on their own, and it was good when they were first learning to read.
This was my favorite book when I was little! The pictures themselves are just absolutely adorable. Love, love, love this book!
The first book I ever read. The first book I ever owned. I still have a copy I read to my kids and will read it to their kids.
brings back childhood memories - wanted to introduce some stories I grew up reading and enjoyed with my daughter
We have the copy that I had as a child, and Rabbit loves it as much as did and do....it is a treasure for our family!
I could always find bed time stories in this big volume. I read it so much that the cover fell off!
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