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Illus. in full color. Shows and tells what busy people do
every day to build houses, sail ships, fly planes, keep house, and
grow food.
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Scarry began his career as a freelance illustrator, drawing
pictures to accompany the text of books by children s authors such
as Margaret Wise Brown, Kathryn Jackson, and Patricia Murphy who
became Patricia Scarry when she married Richard in 1949. His first
two efforts at writing his own books, The Great Big Car and Truck
Book 1951 and Rabbit and His Friends 1953, already suggest some
of his interests as an author: travel, technology, and talking
animals.
But it was the 1963 publication of Richard Scarry''s Best Word
Book Ever that put Scarry on bestseller lists, and established his
signature style. Its densely packed pages are populated by
anthropomorphic animals at work and play, in drawings that reward
multiple readings with details children and parents may not
notice at first glance. The large-format book contains over 1400
illustrated and labeled objects, along with simple introductions to
concepts like sharing and helping.
In Busy, Busy World 1965, Scarry''s animals star in a series of
international adventures in such far-flung locales as Paris, Rome,
and Algeria. Well before multiculturalism was an educational
buzzword, Scarry believed he could use animals to help children
imaginatively enter others'' experiences. In a Publishers Weekly
interview, he explained that "children can identify more closely
with pictures of animals than they can with pictures of another
child. They see an illustration of a blond girl or a dark-haired
boy, who they know is somebody other than themselves, and
competition creeps in. With imagination -- and children all have
marvelous imagination -- they can easily identify with an anteater
who is a painter or a goat who is an Indian."
Though Scarry soon abandoned exotic settings in favor of the
fictional Busytown, he continued to illustrate different roles in
society with cherubic critters like Postman Pig, Huckle Cat,
Sergeant Murphy, and Lowly Worm. Once he had developed a cast of
characters, he introduced them into everything from picture
dictionaries and activity books to mystery stories and manners
lessons.
Scarry''s books, which have sold over 100 million copies and been
translated into 30 languages, always reflected his own curiosity
about the world. "Wherever I go, I''m watching," he liked to say.
"Even on vacation, when I''m in an airport or a railroad station, I
look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things." In
relating his discoveries to children, he expanded not only their
vocabularies, but their understanding of the "busy world" as a
social community in which people work, play, cooperate and
share.
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