RICHARD SCARRY (1919-1994) 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. (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
work. 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 his own original characters, such as
Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit
clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic classic I Am a
Bunny.
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 twenty 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.
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