Illus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words.
Generations of children all over the world have grown up spending hours poring over RICHARD SCARRY's oversized books filled with all the details of their lives. No other illustrator has shown such interest in the day-to-day words and concepts of childhood. Scarry was raised and educated in Boston. After five years of drawing maps and designing graphics for the U.S. 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 a home for himself. In the extraordinary career that followed, Richard Scarry illustrated over one hundred books, including almost thirty Little Golden Books and ten Big Golden Books, many of which have never been out of print.
理查德·斯凱瑞，1919年出生于波士頓，美國(guó)最負(fù)盛名的兒童暢銷書作家。一生創(chuàng)作兒童圖書三百余部，全球銷量超過3億冊(cè)，是世界童書界的幽默大師。他的“金色童書”系列風(fēng)靡世界四十余年，陪伴了一代又一代人的成長(zhǎng)，是美國(guó)家庭書架和美國(guó)國(guó)家圖書館的必藏書。以善良可愛的動(dòng)物形象來模擬人類的行為，向孩子揭示日常生活的秘密，是斯凱瑞童書的最大特色。圖書中豐富的信息量，精心設(shè)計(jì)的微小細(xì)節(jié)，以及故事中的游戲性和天馬行空般的想象，會(huì)引導(dǎo)孩子長(zhǎng)時(shí)間地投入觀察和閱讀，培養(yǎng)他們的觀察力和想像力。斯凱瑞的童書對(duì)于幼兒學(xué)習(xí)語言，了解自然界和社會(huì)生活有著很大的幫助，非常適合親子閱讀。斯凱瑞的童書中充滿了快樂和溫情，在世界范圍內(nèi)受到了廣泛歡迎。他曾說：“我不希望我寫出的書是那種讀過一遍以后就放在書架上，從此被遺忘的書。如果人們將我的書讀舊了，甚至破到需要用透明膠帶粘起來，是對(duì)我最大的褒獎(jiǎng)。”1976年，斯凱瑞榮獲美國(guó)愛倫·坡特別獎(jiǎng)。
