A much loved children's story book has had a revamp to make it more politically correct, including placing a male bunny in the kitchen helping his wife, ad

'The Best Word Book Ever' by US author Richard Scarry was first published in 1963, but over the years the illustrations have been gradually tweaked to bring the book up to speed with modern times.

The colourful illustrations of rosy cheeked pigs in police uniforms and rabbits getting the children ready for school are very much the same, but 'policeman', 'fireman' and 'handsome pilot' have been changed to unisex titles such as 'firefighter'.

Male characters are also pictured looking after children and cooking, whilst female characters have been given careers such as farming and labouring.

Richard Scarry's creations are loved across the world with over 100 million copies of his books sold in various languages.

The changes were spotted by eagle-eyed father Alan Taylor who noticed that difference between his childhood copy of the book compared to his children's and shared the updates to Flickr.

In the 1963 edition of 'The Best Word Book Ever' by US author Richard Scarry a brave hero was rescuing a 'beautiful screaming lady'. In a later edition, the damsel in distress became a cat in danger, while the hero is now simply called a firefighter (right)

In 1963 a lone femlae bunny was cooking while her husband worked as a farmer and a mother fox took her baby for a walk (left). Now, Mr and Mrs Bunny are sharing the load, the farmer is female and Mr Fox is the one pushing the baby (right)

Alan Taylor, who works as a senior editor for the photo section of The Atlantic, snapped the pages of his 1960s edition, followed by a more updated edition belonging to his children.

Across the pages of the picture book, subtle changes have been made - for example the use of 'policeman', 'fireman' and 'handsome pilot' have been changed to unisex titles.

Male characters are also pictured looking after children and cooking, whilst female characters being shown to have careers and job titles.

As well as creating an equal nature between the male and female characters, on the page with Christmas and Halloween drawings, other faith's religious holidays have been added - like Hanukkah.

The pretty stewardess greeting the passenger in the original edition (left) has now become the flight attendant

The mother bunny used to be on her own in the kitchen cooking (left). But now she's joined by Father to lend a helping hand

The marching band drummer was once a male piglet. Now it's a female band member, wearing a bow in her hair (right)

A male bear was driving the steam roller in the first edition of the book (left). He's since been replaced by a female driver (right)

Bear used to rush for breakfast when called. Now, he's more mature and can make his way without being scolded

The dental hygienist was originally a female walrus (left). However the role has now been passed on to a male hygienist (right)

The book has now been made more inclusive by adding other holidays such as Chanukah, when previously it just detailed Christian holidays such as Christmas (left)