Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book

By Author / Illustrator
Richard Scarry
Genre
Early Skills
Age range(s)
5+
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN
9780571361182
Format
Paperback / softback
Published
16-01-2025
Synopsis
Jump into Busytown and learn your ABCs with Lowly Worm and his friends! Packed with words starting or finishing or including a specific letter of the alphabet, this ABC book makes learning the alphabet a treat! The letters are highlighted in red to emphasise the learning point. There's always something going on in Busytown to look at and explore . . .
Reviews
Lucy
Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book is an interesting book to help with children's language development. This book goes through the alphabet with lots of interesting little pictures. Within those pictures, different things are labelled using each of the letters.
I like that not all of the objects begin with each letter but rather they contain each letter. These are highlighted in red which will help children to identify them and help to build connections between them. Each page includes short sentences about the characters who are depicted as well as having the labels on each page. This will help to keep children engaged with each page.
Each letter is also displayed as a lower case and as a capital, which is important for children to see. It also includes some of the common sounds (such as 'th') as well as each individual letter of the alphabet. There is nice alphabet print at the back of the book which you could photocopy for older children to have in their bedrooms.
This would be a nice book to play games with or use as a spark for an activity, for example, playing eye spy with different objects that are depicted or using the characters and activities as story starters in imaginative play.
Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book would be a nice book to have in any home for children of all ages to use or in a classroom (particularly KS1) for children to use to develop their confidence within literacy.
60 pages / Reviewed by Lucy Hopkins, teacher
Suggested Reading Age 5+