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 Scarry’s ...

Richard Scarry demonstrated his inimitable imagination, artistic acumen, and fascination with myriad modes of transport in 1974’s Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. On January 2, ...

The grown-up world as depicted in children's books often seems both dull and taxing, a complicated and distant place to which no child with any sense ought to be in a hurry to get. A couple of ...

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, here ...

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Artist Tony Ruth has reimagined Richard Scarry's "Busytown" children's book for the 21st century in an ongoing art project called "Businesstown." Scarry's classic story, published in 1994, illustrates ...

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, ...

Richard Scarry spent more than 40 years creating some of the most beloved children’s books of the 20th century. On June 5, we celebrate his 100th birthday. Over his career, Scarry wrote more than 300 ...

TORONTO -- Canadian cartoon producer Cookie Jar Entertainment is teaming again with popular kids writer and illustrator Richard Scarry to produce "Busytown Mysteries (Hurray for Huckle!)" for the ...

3 p.m.—I walk over to the Landhaus Hotel across the street to pick up Zhana Ivanova, a Bulgarian performance artist, to bring her to her site at the Alpina Hotel lobby in Gstaad and discuss her piece ...