What Do People Do All Day?

What Do People Do All Day? | Richard Scarry

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My daughter likes to visit the charity shop of a local hospice as they always have lots of great books & they're only 50p! I steered her to this one as I loved Richard Scarry as a kid. It's great to read together but she also spent a long time looking at the humorous illustrations by herself. It's a little dated in places and I objected to the 'Wood and how we use it' section on ecological grounds. But still a classic.

AmyG My son just loved his books. ❤️ 6y

DivaDiane Loved (and still do love) Richard Scarry! Yes, there are some decidedly in-PC things in those books and the stories are quite bizarro. My brother reminded me about a story of the Bear family and when Papa and Baby Bear go hunting - Bang! And they shot the seal dead. (Or similar) 6y

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Ncostell

What Do People Do All Day? | Richard Scarry

The #anthropomorphiccharacters I chose are from Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? book. I can still clearly remember loving these books as a child when I was learning to read and I enjoyed reading them again with my kids when they were little. #feistyfeb

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CocoReads I love Richard Scarry when I was a kid! I'd kind of forgotten about him. Busy town always seemed like such a fun place. 7y

Mommamanzi I love reading Richard Scarry to my children! I remember my mom reading them to me! 7y

Lmstraubie I loved Richard Scary! There was just something happy about these books. 7y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Love these books! 7y

kspenmoll Lovehis books! 7y

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LiteraryMind

What Do People Do All Day? | Richard Scarry

#NovemberClassics - There is something to cherish about classic children books and how detailed they can be about our society! Plus, is it just me or is that flying cat a hilarious "#FindingWaldo" moment? ?

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LauraBeth

What Do People Do All Day? | Richard Scarry

Just noticed I have the abridged version of this. I'm going to need to know what's been left out...

Mamashep Why ever would they need to abridge Richard Scarry?! 8y

bookishchelle 😱 Abridged Scarry! Why?! 8y

Suzze Is the dog reading it for information? 8y

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12parsecs It's the Secret Life of Pets: Human Edition 😂 8y

BookNerdBritt Those adorable neck wrinkles 😍 8y

jpmcwisemorgan I see that are others are asking why this is abridged. What's up with that, who thought that needed to be done? Inquiring minds want to know. 8y

LauraBeth Agree @bookishchelle, @Mamashep, @jpmcwisemorgan - I have no idea why they would have abridged it. I'm wondering if there was something deemed a bad stereotype in the unabridged version? 8y

LauraBeth @suzze my dog needs to know where we go all day 🐶🐶 8y

LauraBeth 😂😂😂 @12parsecs 8y

LauraBeth @BookNerdBritt 🐶🐶❤️❤️ who doesn't love neck wrinkles - but only on a dog! 8y

jpmcwisemorgan I'm going to be on the look out for an original version now. 8y

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