Richard Scarry was underrated as an architectural illustrator. This "Buildings" spread gives you an idea of what he could do, and he takes it up a notch in the book Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World, which is full of gorgeous full-color spreads of buildings like St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. |
This blog is called Post-Apocalyptic Homeschool because I obsessively collect and stockpile used children's books just in case I need to personally educate a small village after some sort of catastrophic scenario where all the other books and technology and book-obtaining means of all kinds have been destroyed, such that the only reading materials left for miles around are the piles of books in my garage. Sensible, yes?
Monday, March 18, 2013
Politically Incorrect Richard Scarry
If you look at your copy of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, you'll probably find a note on the cover in tiny print that says "Abridged Edition." Originally published back in the 1960s, the current edition is somewhat different than the contemporary edition. The Drawn.ca blog has covered some of the alterations--I is now just for Ice Cream (instead of an Indian eating Ice Cream), Hannukah was added as a notable holiday, etc.--but when I was paging through my husband's childhood edition, I found some spreads I didn't even know existed. One of them, "Out West," is no longer politically correct, and I think the other two were either deemed boring or too culturally incorrect to warrant saving. I believe there are a handful of other pages excised from the current edition that used to be included, by my husband's old copy is so savaged from years of reading love that it'shard to be sure what's what. (Lots of pages are missing, some are taped together even if they don't match, etc.) Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, here's some old-school Richard Scarry for ya:
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I have noticed that SO many of the vintage books I collect have depictions of kids playing cowboys and Indians - it makes it seem like that was the favourite thing for kids to do back then! I wonder when this started to fade out - I was born in 1975 and I know WE definitely never played this!
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