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"Positively guaranteed to please any small child."--The New Yorker.
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Illus. in full color. Shows and tells what busy people do every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and grow food.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Children's Book Ever,
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This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Hardcover)
Wish I could give this 10 stars. I discovered this book as a preschooler in 1968. My mom would take me to the local library every week. I checked it out from the library and I was hooked. I wanted to check it out at every visit, so my mom had the library order a copy for me. I remember even before I could read the words, I completely understood the story from the illustrations. I still have that original edition. It is tatered but still intact. I bought another copy this year for my preschool sons. They absolutely love it as well as the other Scarry book I had as a child, Busy Busy World. The newer book is the abridged edition. The abridged edition has 63 pages as compared to the ~95 pages in the original. They removed 4 stories from the original: busy (stay at home) mom, water treatment plants, electricity and how we get it, and Sgt. Murphy the Busytown policman. Why? Somebody at the publisher must have had a lobotomy. Anyway, we keep the original up in a closet to read only with adult supervision. The new one is on the shelf, readily accesible to the kids.This book (even the abridged edition) is an absolute classic.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Abridged Edition is missing a third of the book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Hardcover)
I bought my childhood favorite for my son. Unfortunately, only the abridged edition is now available, which is missing a third from the original book. I wish Random House will bring back the book that taught me so much as a child.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best books of any kind,
By Grommit (Morgantown, WV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Hardcover)
Like some other reviewers, I am disapointed the unabridged version is not available. But, even abridged, this is one of the funniest and most absorbing books in print. This book is full of delightful cutaways showing the internals of houses, streets, and factories. Like most Richard Scarry books, this one explores and explains a world which is fun, colorful, comprehensible, and full of well meaning people. Five stars is not enough.
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