Scarry, Richard
Scarry, Richard (1919–94),American author and illustrator of children's picture books. Scarry's career was launched in 1948 when he signed with the Artists and Writers Guild, responsible for the Little Golden Books series published by Simon and Schuster. Scarry illustrated several Little Golden Books for which his wife Patricia wrote the text, including The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, the Dog and His Bone, the Fox and the Crow: Three Aesop Fables (1961). Scarry's claim to fame is his use of animal characters like Lowly Worm, Wild Bill Hiccup the racoon, and his stock of pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats, and bears. It comes as no surprise that he illustrated tales like ‘The Little Red Hen’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’ (Nursery Tales, 1958); ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, and ‘The Musicians of...
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