Richard Scarry’s Favorite Storybook Ever
- ISBN13: 9780375825491
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A collection of sixteen stories featuring the animals of Busytown.Amazon.com Review
Sergeant Murphy, Huckle, Lowly, Mr. Fixit, and the rest of the Busytown citizens are busy indeed in this big treasury from beloved storyteller, Richard Scarry . Sixteen stories are collected from the classic Richard Scarry’s Funniest Storybook Ever and Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day?, including “The Talking Bread,” “Building a New Road,” “The Unlucky Day,” “A Visit to the Hospital,” and “Sergeant Murphy and the Banana Thief.” A whole new generation will giggle at the slapstick antics and gentle misfortunes of Scarry’s colorfully drawn animal characters as they go about their everyday lives building houses, mailing birthday letters, and going fishing. In addition to the warm, funny stories, Richard Scarry’s books are terrific language builders. Children pore over every page, lingering to find the droll little details they may not have caught their first–or fifty-first–time around. (Ages 2 to 6) –Emilie Coulter
….and so did my daughter. After having read ‘Cars and Trucks’ (same author) a million times, I decided to go for a new book to read. And read it we did. The stories do not grab her nearly as much as the cool drawings. We read it a million times, and will probably read it a million more!
Rating: 5 / 5
Richard Scarry’s work was very new to me since I did not grow up in the US. Someone gave my 1-year old his “A Day at the Airport” and I thought it cluttered with its fine type and detailed sketches. “A baby can’t focus on those details,” I thought. Well, a baby can’t, but that baby is now 2-years old, and he can. He absolutely loves the books. This particular volume collects 16 of Scarry’s best known stories in a lovely hardback format (makes it easier to handle when in bed). My son adores the playful sketches and we make up stories as we go along since Scarry’s gift is his drawing, not his prose or his narratives. The pictures combine “real” things (of steamrollers and back hoe loaders) with childlike characters (Lowly the worm is a current favorite)doing things that our urban son frequently wishes he could. He has learned how a letter gets sorted to get to its recipient, how bread is baked, how roads are made, all through Scarry’s playful combination of image and character. As our son grows older, he is seeing more in each image and story and that’s fantastic. I’d recommend this warmly for a 2+ year old.
Rating: 4 / 5
The stories are original and funny and there is endless fun talking about the illustrations afterward.
Rating: 5 / 5
This has the most memorable stories of the Richard Scarry books from my childhood. I remember looking at all the pictures in What do People Do All Day, and finding all my favorite characters in the very busy pictures, but the story I vividly remember is the the story of the Talking Bread, which is in this book (Favorite Storybook Ever). Lots of fun!
Rating: 5 / 5
Cute book. I remember these books from my childhood, so I had to get one for my son’s book collection!
Rating: 5 / 5