Summary

This storybook is a collection of entertaining stories and poems involving celebrated children's book artist Richard Scarry's lovable cast of animal characters. These happy tales and lively illustrations make this treasury of the very best of Scarry's work the best storybook ever.

Author Biography

Richard Scarry is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! Generations of children all over the world have grown up spending hours poring over his books filled with all the colorful details of their daily lives. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. For himself, whenever he was asked how old he was, Scarry would always put up one hand and laugh, saying, "five!" Born in 1919, Richard Scarry was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After five years of drawing maps and designing graphics for the US Army, he moved to New York to pursue a career in commercial art. But after showing his portfolio to one of the original editors at Golden Books, he found the perfect home for his children's books. The assignments first given to Scarry tended to be Little Golden Books that featured popular characters of the day, such as Winky Dink, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Smokey the Bear. Eventually Scarry created many original characters, such as Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic board book I Am a Bunny. After Scarry married children's textbook writer Patricia Murphy, she wrote many stories for him as Patsy Scarry, including the bestselling Little Golden Books Good Night, Little Bear and The Bunny Book. In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated more than 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in more than 20 languages. Richard Scarry Jr., also an illustrator, carries on his father's work today under the name of Huck Scarry. Richard Scarry passed away at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland, in 1994. He was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.

The New Day	p. 6
The Rabbit Family's House	p. 8
Feed Big Hilda Hippo Her ABC'S	p. 10
Toys	p. 20
Words To Learn	p. 22
Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 24
The Fishing Cat	p. 26
I Am a Bunny	p. 29
Good Night, Little Bear	p. 39
Work Machines	p. 62
Animals	p. 64
Shapes	p. 73
Numbers	p. 73
Lines	p. 73
Farmer Pig	p. 74
On the Farm	p. 75
Mealtime	p. 77
Pip Pip Goes to London	p. 79
Buildings	p. 83
A Tale of Tails	p. 84
What Animals Do	p. 85
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 95
Mr. Hedgehog's Christmas Present	p. 96
Whisper in My Ear	p. 101
A Castle in Denmark	p. 110
Cars and Trucks	p. 112
More Cars and Trucks	p. 114
The Fox and the Crow	p. 116
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 123
When You Grow Up	p. 124
Couscous, the Algerian Detective	p. 126
Tom, the Fishing Cat	p. 130
Count with Hooty Owl	p. 131
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 132
The Hungry Beggars	p. 134
In the Flower Garden	p. 136
Officer Montey of Monaco	p. 138
Is This the House of Mistress Mouse?	p. 140
Colors	p. 155
Clothes	p. 173
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 174
At the Airport	p. 176
Airplanes	p. 178
Harry's Airplane Ride	p. 181
Pierre, the Paris Policeman	p. 182
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 189
A Nice Surprise	p. 190
Polite Elephant	p. 191
Chipmunk's Birthday Party	p. 198
The Bunny Book	p. 208
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 217
Boats	p. 220
More Boats	p. 222
Tugboat Tom	p. 223
Good Luck in Rome	p. 225
The Firemen to the Rescue	p. 232
Things We Do	p. 234
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse	p. 236
Music Making	p. 248
Trains	p. 250
More Trains	p. 254
Polite Puppy	p. 256
The Dog and His Bone	p. 257
The Always Hungry Visitors	p. 258
Tools	p. 260
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 262
Trees	p. 264
Egg in the Hole	p. 266
Schtoompah, the Funny Austrian	p. 269
Merry Months of the Year	p. 274
More Mother Goose Rhymes	p. 286
The End	p. 288
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