Appropriately, Blazy’s favorite Richard Scarry character is Lowly Worm. “His outfit is exceptional: one shoe, the Tyrolean hat, the red bowtie, the blue and green body tube, and an apple for a ...

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.

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 ...

The character "Huckle Cat" is named for Scarry's son, Richard Scarry Jr. The illustrator deemed his son "Huck" at a young age after deciding that he looked like "a real Huckleberry Finn." ...

As a Thought Leader might put it, the illustration series is a disruptive, innovative reimagining of Richard Scarry’s iconic characters as Silicon Valley stereotypes.

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 ...

'Richard Scarry's Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!,' a never-before-published book starring this Tyrolean hat-sporting character, will be released by Random House on August 26.

Has there ever been a greater orchestrator of chaos than Richard Scarry? On every crowded page of his Busytown books, the first of which, the Best Word Book Ever, was published 50 years ago, he ...

Beloved children’s book author Richard Scarry was born on this day, June 5, 1919. Among the many books he published during his 45-year career were “Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever ...

Arts Richard Scarry's characters, and life lessons, are colorfully adapted for the stage Published: Oct. 09, 2010, 11:30 a.m.

Richard Scarry died in 1994, but the books he wrote and illustrated remain must-reads for families. “I have a real connection with the pleasure that his little anthropomorphic characters give… ...