Richard Scarry

This was my childhood. Fuck that 1963/1991 updated book is a bit depressing!

This is a shoe-in for the awesome people unexpectedly hanging out thread:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/authors/richard-scarry/ali.jpg

I had a pile of these in the UK, dunno where they came from But in Cars and things that go, there was a little gold bug on every page and I would spend hours seeking him out. It was a easy version of Where's Wally (That may be Waldo in other places).
One that sticks in mind was a pig on a boat that got attacked by rats who stole his pie. The pig got his revenge by disguising himself as a crocodile and scarring them off. He called them a bunch of Pie-rats which struck me as hillarious at the time.

At least it was all animals who lived in Scarry's towns, things like Rupert (or wind in the willows for that matter) would confuse me as they had real humans living alongside them. If you lived in a village, wouldn't you get freaked out when you noticed families of bears, goats and pug dogs walking round in clothes and having adventures. People would grab torches and hold a lynching against these creations of a mad scientist.
In Rupert I alway? thought the Chinese girl Tigerlilly had the prettiest name. This was ruined when every fuckwit pop star began using it to name their brattish kids.

Richard Scarry's books were important to me - or, I was very fond of them - as a little boy. This was probably because I lived for a year in the USA.

Funny, because the books always seemed oddly British to me.

can't believe google.co.uk has dissed the great man. wankers.

yeah thats nuts

i asked on the childrens book thread, does anyone know which Scarry book featured a small scene of a guy (cat or pig, can't remember) going fishing on a pier, and he hooks something really big and it pulls him in.

I remember the book had a lot of gazelles in it.

For better or for worse, this taught me how a boat works.

Also,

http://www.kilala.nl/Images/Blog/RichardScarry.jpg

^^ Actually a better picture than the one I was trying to steal post.

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/4696/richardscarry.jpg

this guy is great! he's like the childrens book equivalent of one of those wild outsider folk art dudes. everything is so manic and intricate. my kid loves these books.

"funniest story book ever" was a longtime favorite in my house

I still have my copy of What People Do All Day Animal Nursery Tales and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go from my childhood, though they have seen better days, spines are splitting and I colored on a lot of pages. But we found a nice copy of Scarry's Best Storybook Ever at a flae market, and August loves it. The Teeny Tiny Woman use to scary me as a kid, "Give Me My Bone"!!!!!!

Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

Goldbug was stumping us the other night on the ferry page until we spotted him way down in the corner.

cars and trucks and things that go is funny. my kid love Goldbug. line that resonates with me for some reason phrasing wise is on the page with the car pileup: "That is what I would call SOME ACCIDENT."

"Dump it right there!" is a big hit in my house.

Love the marginalia in this stuff.

Lowly Worm is the R2D2 of Busytown. I'm just throwing that out there.

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0203/1662/products/119_large.jpg?v=1362344949

"i am a bunny" is my default gift for babies old enough to be read to.

i can't count the number of scarry's books i've bought for kids. he is awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/nkCi2BC.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/w2JXY2g.jpg?1

metaphor for late-stage capitalism innit

in this paper i will argue that

In my childhood I harboured thoughts of smoking baccy with one of those Gen MacArthur style corn-cob pipes and opening up a cannibal butchery store. Ban this filth!