With more than 100 books to his credit, the late Richard Scarry – assisted by Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, and other amiable anthropomorphic characters – introduced generations of young readers to basic ...

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 ...

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 ...

I know my wife and I aren’t alone in our tremendous fondness for the children’s books of Richard Scarry. Our kids loved these things, and we spent many happy hours reading them together. They’re among ...

The BusinessTown Tumblr takes the ridiculous jobs and workplace archetypes of Silicon Valley and makes them cute animals in the style of Richard Scarry. The white male venture capitalist, the overpaid ...

My first favorite author was Richard Scarry. Parents the world over know Scarry’s illustrated children’s books, the most famous of which explored his fictional “Busytown,” which was populated with ...

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?” ...

Author and illustrator Richard Scarry penned some of the most iconic children’s books of the past few decades, like the Busytown series about animals doing human jobs in a pretend town. More than 100 ...

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 ...

Nearly 20 years after the best-selling illustrator's death, a new Richard Scarry book has been published focusing on the long-running character of Lowly Worm. Image caption, Nearly 20 years after the ...