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Original Title:	What Do People Do All Day?
ISBN:	0394818237 (ISBN13: 9780394818238)
Edition Language:	English

What Do People Do All Day?

Richard Scarry

Hardcover | Pages: 64 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 11804 Users | 232 Reviews

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While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally I have always found What Do People Do All Day? as much too frenetic and too in-your-face busy for my tastes (and most definitely with TOO MUCH of an emphasis on physical work, and especially on vehicles and machinery). In other words, I usually do tend to always consider Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever rather more balanced with regard to presenting an acceptable combination of home and public life (and thus also not as overtly and joyously extroverted as What Do People Do All Day?) and yes indeed, that What Do People Do All Day? is in my opinion simply and totally just a bit too constantly into getting up and going, too celebratory and supportive of the so-called modern rat race.

And albeit that even as a child of ten when I was using What Do People Do All Day? to increase my English vocabulary I found the emphasis on especially all work and no play, on modernity or bust so to speak a wee bit uncomfortable and unnatural, now as an older (much more introverted) adult reader revisiting Richard Scarry for the first time since 1976, I actually do consider it quite majorly problematic in and of itself that What Do People Do All Day? really and unfortunately (at least in my opinion) overly focusses on people working, that the book so blatantly and one-sidedly celebrates and supports without any type of criticism whatsoever technology, vehicles, being out and busily with a rather total and overt Protestant work ethic rushing and achieving, while life itself, while quietude, sitting back and thinking, reading, pondering the world, while any kind of activity that seems to be based on reflectiveness and using one's mind feels to and for me at best rather ignored in What Do People Do All Day? as being unimportant or at least rather insignificant to and for one's daily routines and one's work habits (one's modern life).

And yes, even Richard Scarry's signature accompanying illustrations, while they do possess colour and charm, they are equally in What Do People Do All Day? much too frenetically busy for my aesthetic tastes and philosophy and for the most part also just too unapologetically pro modern technology, pro machinery, using vehicles day in and day out with no consideration and promotion of alternatives (and certainly not ever really in any manner presenting any consideration and questions regarding potential issues of pollution, over-consumption and that too many vehicles might strain resources and have the tendency to wreak havoc on the environment and natural ecosystems).

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Title	:	What Do People Do All Day?
Author	:	Richard Scarry
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Abridged
Pages	:	Pages: 64 pages
Published	:	March 12th 1968 by Random House Books for Young Readers (first published March 12th 1967)
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books

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This isn't exactly a classy work of literature, but it is certainly fun to read every once and a while. I never did stop liking to read a good Richard Scarry book.

Read aloud bit by bit for the 1001 Children's Books to Read Before You Grow Up list. This is one I remember reading when I was a kid and couldn't pass up when I saw it. My kiddo showed a lot of interest in the details of what was going on around Busytown and has been paying more attention on our own drives through town. I'm glad we own this one even if it is a little outdated.

This is the best book ever written. I mean it.



This is probably one of my four-year-old's favorite books. It takes a long time to read because the text is all over the pages (which can be nice because that helps it describe things more specifically), but he really enjoys seeing all of the different workers, especially the lumberjacks, farmers, and construction workers. He tells me that when he grows up, he wants to be "a worker"!There is a fair amount of silliness as is typical in Busytown, and of course, anthropomorphic animals, but it

Fantastic book. If the '60s gender politics bother you, don't read it OR use it as a critical discussion point when you read it to your kids. Or, you know, realize that there's nothing inherently shameful about housewifery and just enjoy it.Awesome for pre-readers.

Way too busy...not sure if it's too busy for me or my toddler. I try to avoid reading it, and it's never requested.