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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Adults tend to think they’ve got the market cornered on being busy, but kids, toddlers, and babies have plenty to do too, and no one quite understood that like author and illustrator Richard Scarry, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are a parent or a former child of a certain age, you probably read large format books by Richard Scarry (1919-1994), like “Cars and Trucks and Things That Go” or “What Do People Do All Day?” ...

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 ...