Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever

Illustrated by Richard Scarry
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Hardcover
$17.99 US
On sale Sep 12, 1979 | 48 Pages | 9780394842509

Introduce your child to basic concepts, items, locations, and daily events with Richard Scarry’s classic characters and illustrations in this comprehensive book featuring over 700 labeled words! A wonderful first book for babies and toddlers!

Join Richard Scarry’s beloved cast of characters on an educational journey as they go about their daily routines. Follow along as the Cat family, along with their friend Lowly Worm, get ready for school, visit the doctor, shop at the supermarket, help with housework, and so much more! Babies and toddlers will love learning colors, shapes, sizes, months of the year, parts of the body, the alphabet, and counting through Richard Scarry’s detailed and vibrant illustrations.

Perfect for introducing little ones to new concepts and teaching essential vocabulary, Richard Scarry’s Best First Book Ever is a cherished family classic that can be read again and again.

Children will also love:
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Nursery Tales Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever
Richard Scarry’s Funniest Storybook Ever!
RICHARD SCARRY (1919-1994) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! Generations of children all over the world have grown up spending hours poring over his books filled with all the colorful details of their daily lives. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. (Whenever he was asked how old he was, Scarry would always put up one hand and laugh, saying, "five!")

Born in 1919, Richard Scarry was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After five years of drawing maps and designing graphics for the US Army, he moved to New York to pursue a career in commercial art. But after showing his portfolio to one of the original editors at Golden Books, he found the perfect home for his work. The assignments first given to Scarry tended to be Little Golden Books that featured popular characters of the day, such as Winky Dink, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Smokey the Bear. Eventually, Scarry created his own original characters, such as Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic classic I Am a Bunny.

In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated more than 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in more than twenty languages. Richard Scarry Jr., also an illustrator, carries on his father's work today under the name of Huck Scarry. Richard Scarry passed away at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1994. He was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. View titles by Richard Scarry

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Introduce your child to basic concepts, items, locations, and daily events with Richard Scarry’s classic characters and illustrations in this comprehensive book featuring over 700 labeled words! A wonderful first book for babies and toddlers!

Join Richard Scarry’s beloved cast of characters on an educational journey as they go about their daily routines. Follow along as the Cat family, along with their friend Lowly Worm, get ready for school, visit the doctor, shop at the supermarket, help with housework, and so much more! Babies and toddlers will love learning colors, shapes, sizes, months of the year, parts of the body, the alphabet, and counting through Richard Scarry’s detailed and vibrant illustrations.

Perfect for introducing little ones to new concepts and teaching essential vocabulary, Richard Scarry’s Best First Book Ever is a cherished family classic that can be read again and again.

Children will also love:
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Nursery Tales Ever
Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever
Richard Scarry’s Funniest Storybook Ever!

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RICHARD SCARRY (1919-1994) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! Generations of children all over the world have grown up spending hours poring over his books filled with all the colorful details of their daily lives. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. (Whenever he was asked how old he was, Scarry would always put up one hand and laugh, saying, "five!")

Born in 1919, Richard Scarry was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After five years of drawing maps and designing graphics for the US Army, he moved to New York to pursue a career in commercial art. But after showing his portfolio to one of the original editors at Golden Books, he found the perfect home for his work. The assignments first given to Scarry tended to be Little Golden Books that featured popular characters of the day, such as Winky Dink, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Smokey the Bear. Eventually, Scarry created his own original characters, such as Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic classic I Am a Bunny.

In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated more than 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in more than twenty languages. Richard Scarry Jr., also an illustrator, carries on his father's work today under the name of Huck Scarry. Richard Scarry passed away at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1994. He was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. View titles by Richard Scarry