Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Boxed Set - Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Board Books Mixed Media Product

Book Synopsis

An action-packed collection of four small board books all about vehicles, from the one and only Richard Scarry! Perfect for little ones who are curious about their world!

From crowded airports and traffic jams to construction sites and large farms, little fans of busy places will fall in love with this boxed set of four Richard Scarry favorites, including:

- Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Airport
- Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Cars and Trucks
- Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Construction Site
- Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Farm

With bold, easy-to-read text and Richard Scarry's signature illustrations, each board book in this collection teaches children all about the different vehicles they will find at each location. What do cranes do? Which vehicle collects the corn on a farm? Besides people, what else can planes carry? This lively collection is a must-have for children who love anything and everything on wheels!

About the Author

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.