For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling. From “Richard ...

Dear Richard Scarry, I hope you knew what a wonderful ... Every detail mattered to you, from a sly look on a tiny mouse to the nails hammered into Santa’s sleigh. Characters are full of life ...

Richard Scarry's 1942 book The Animals of Farmer Jones now appears as a paper-over-board Big Little Golden Book. This classic introduction to farm animals spotlights their familiar barnyard noises ...

Chances are pretty good that you have a Richard Scarry book or two in your collection—more than 100 million of his books have been sold. In honor of what would have been his 97th birthday today ...

Scarry died in 1994, but this month a new Scarry picture book is being published in the U.S. for the first time. Richard Scarry's Best Lowly Worm Book Ever! is part of a long season of re ...

The world of Busytown has become BusinessTown. In a nod to Richard Scarry’s classic children’s books, artist Tony Ruth has taken the distinctive style and reimagined the world of ...

When my daughter was just a few months old, my father-in-law bought Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town to read to her because he had read it to my husband when he was young. My husband fondly ...