Comments on: Richard Scarry

By: AxedCrown

AxedCrown — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:41:47 +0000

Holy crap. The image at the top was my favorite page as a kid. The fire pigs. I would make my parents skip to that page because the fire pigs were pure awesome. My sister ripped out the page for vengeance.

By: Jason Landry

Jason Landry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:56:04 +0000

In Canada, an updated cartoon called Busytown Mysteries can be found on CBC. Richard Scarry is one of the executive producers: http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/busytown_mysteries_dv

By: Gus

Gus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:15:06 +0000

I had totally forgotten about Richard Scarry until my boy got one from the library (then I subsequently found my old books at my mums house) I remember pouring over them looking at every single detail just like my son does.

They are a bit of a bugger to read aloud though.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:08:15 +0000

Such a nostalgic delight.

It’s always been curiously interesting to me how some remnants from our childhoods take on such meaning and emotional impact when we grow old and look back. Sometimes it seems all we really need to discover ourselves and who we are again – in this lost, muddied world of adulthood – is simply to dig out the different pieces of our childhood and spend the afternoons carefully examining each piece, putting the jigsaw slowly back together again.

Looking at this, I’m definitely now remembering the pieces of my childhood that Richard Scarry provided.

By: sean murphy

sean murphy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:05 +0000

I never thought about how important to me these were until I started sharing them with my kids and you see the art and the images and it is like a flood of childhood memories. I never knew there was a cartoon, my son will be psyched.

Thanks for posting this.

By: james fox

james fox — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:22:04 +0000

beastie boys vs. richard scarry may amuse.