Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town

Category: Book
By (author): Scarry, Richard
Series: Golden Look-look Book
Subject:  JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General
  JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
  JUVENILE FICTION / General
  JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: August 2000
Format: Book-hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 12.22in x 10.50in x 0.39in
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From The Publisher*Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm provide a fun introduction to Richard Scarry's Busytown, the setting of Busytown Mysteries on TV. Each oversized spread features a different place from the Post Office, to the Supermarket, to the farm. And for each place is a complete, simple story describing the activities, sights and friendly folk who can be found there. Familiar faces like Sargeant Murphy and Miss Honey will welcome readers to this colorful, fun, and very busy town.
Biographical NoteRichard 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 pouring 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. Whenever he was asked how old he was, Scarry would always put up one hand and laugh, saying, "five!"

In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated over 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 over twenty languages. Richard Scarry's son, Huck, carries on his
father's work today. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Society of Illustrators in 2012.