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Maybe not the answer your were looking for, but SICP is [u]the book[/u]. Not only will you learn Scheme from scratch, but it will greatly help your understanding and conception of programs, programming languages and much more.

I find The Little Schemer (and the rest of the books in the series) very interesting and original in their approach, but I would not call them beginner's books. At least for me, their playful approach is not the best way to learn. It's good as a sort of "side dish", but not a "main course" (pun intended).

Then, after reading a good bit of SICP (and maybe some pure lambda calculus and/or more about LISP), you'll answer the starting question yourself. I enjoyed LISP, Lore and Logic a whole lot.

I've read both The Little Schemer and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

I used both PLT Scheme/DrRacket and Chicken Scheme while going through the exercises. If you're a Windows user, DrRacket is the best one to use - Chicken is awesome but a lot more difficult to compile successfully under MinGW or Cygwin, and the ramp up time may be a turn-off to you.

I don't use Scheme in my daily job, but I really enjoyed learning it and would love to use it more. It completely changed how I think about computation.

I reccomend the SICP book and SICP Video Lectures taught by Gerry Sussman, who is one of the creators of Scheme.

Why?
Higher-order procedures (Lecture 2A), Metacircular Evaluator (Lecture 7A) are simply badass if you've never been exposed to them.

Also, pick up a copy of The Little Schemer

Why?
I think the book does a good job of covering the mind-blowing [for me] concepts of continuations and the applicative order Y-combinator

You can find some in-the-browser Scheme interpreters too like this one:
http://repl.it/languages/Scheme

Screme: a Scheme for the 88000. There was some interesting design choices, in-particular using code alignment restrictions on the 88000 for procedure type-checking - the procedure? primitive had zero-cost during procedure calls. It also specialized other type-tests primitives in the test in (if test ...) syntax.

Chapter in this excellent book: http://www.amazon.com/Topics-Advanced-Language-Implementation-Peter/dp/0262121514

Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=68199

"The Runtime Environment a Scheme Implementation
for Screme, on the 88000"
Steven R. Vegdahl at Tektronix Laboratories,
Uwe F. Pleban at Applied Dynamics International

I learned using Dr Racket and this little book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992/ref=pd_sim_books/103-5471398-9229403

The little schemer is great.

It's more of a reference book. If you're just learning Scheme I'd recommend SICP (of course), HtDP, and the Schemer series.

Then read this: https://www.amazon.com/Let-Over-Lambda-Doug-Hoyte/dp/1435712757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494859848&sr=8-1&keywords=let+over+lambda