Richard Scarry, a best-selling author and illustrator of children’s books, died Saturday at Saanen hospital in Gstaad, Switzerland. He was 74. The cause was a heart attack, said his son, Richard Jr.

Crack open a Richard Scarry book and you step into a world inhabited by pigs, bunnies, worms and other critters who go about solving their everyday problems much the same as you might. They laugh.

Mr. Frumble chases his flyaway hat only to see it flattened and incredibly enlarged by Busytown traffic in Richard Scarry's Mr. Frumble's Biggest Hat Flap Book Ever! True to its title, the oversize ...

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Fans of Busytown’s amiable residents are in for a treat. Richard Scarry’s Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!, a never-before-published book starring this Tyrolean hat-sporting character, will be released by ...

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,” “Good Night, ...

My first favorite author was Richard Scarry. Parents the world over know Scarry’s illustrated children’s books, the most famous of which explored his fictional “Busytown,” which was populated with ...

Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever! In this classic video series, kids learn how to read, write, count, sing, dance, pretend and use their imaginations about the things they do and even go on musical ...

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. From “Richard Scarry’s ...

TORONTO -- Canadian cartoon producer Cookie Jar Entertainment is teaming again with popular kids writer and illustrator Richard Scarry to produce "Busytown Mysteries (Hurray for Huckle!)" for the ...

Instead of gumballs, a new vending machine at a Connecticut bookstore spits out pieces of art inspired by an iconic children's author. Mermaid Books in Milford recently introduced a vending machine ...