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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When someone says they are in pain, there is usually no way to experience exactly what they are experiencing. You may see them wince, hear their voice change or watch them struggle to move, but the ...

Fans of Busytown’s amiable residents are in for a treat. Richard Scarry’s Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!, a never-before-published book starring this Tyrolean hat-sporting character, will be released by ...

Through the fantastical and detailed world of Busytown, Scarry taught us what it means to have a job, why we should clean our dishes and how tomatoes at the grocery store are harvested. Scarry died in ...

Today's Google Doodle is a riff on Busytown, the invention of the great children's author and illustrator Richard Scarry, who was born on June 5, 1919 and died in 1994. It took a while for me to warm ...

Olympia Scarry recently turned 32, an age that brings her a feeling of relief. "I feel that I'm in a much more peaceful place now," she says. "When you come into your 30s, you're more conscious of ...

News that an unfinished manuscript by children's illustrator Richard Scarry is to be coloured up by his son and published this autumn may not immediately thrill the children of today, but it will ...

In a collaboration with Random House Children's Books, artist Ana Inciardi is bringing the illustrator's art to the masses through her mini vending machines Folklore Book Shop, Inciardi Prints We're ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. By the age of 5, most of us know the work of Richard Scarry. He wrote and illustrated hundreds of books that introduced children to numbers, letters and ...