{"id":1418,"date":"2015-11-09T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2015-11-09T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:25:21","slug":"the-story-of-richard-scarrys-busytown-with-special-guest-lecturer-huck-scarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/11\/09\/the-story-of-richard-scarrys-busytown-with-special-guest-lecturer-huck-scarry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Richard Scarry\u2019s Busytown with Special Guest Lecturer Huck Scarry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScarryBusiestpeopleeverP7\"<\/a>Busytown, the\u00a0bustling\u00a0small town and home to such resident characters as Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, Police Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Fixit, and Hilda Hippo, was first depicted in the book\u00a0Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World<\/em>. \u00a0The fictional\u00a0town was a central feature in several Richard Scarry books and has been depicted through time in a variety of formats, including games, toys, activity books, and an animated series.<\/p>\n

Richard Scarry, the popular and much-loved American author and illustrator of over 300 children’s books, is known for such classics as Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever<\/em> released in 1963, Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World<\/em> (1965),\u00a0Richard Scarry’s Storybook Dictionary<\/em> (1966), and What Do People Do All Day<\/em> (1968). \u00a0Selling millions of copies during his lifetime, many Scarry books, though\u00a0regularly updated and re-issused, have never been out of print. \u00a0Several have have been translated into over 20 languages.<\/p>\n

Join us tomorrow evening, Tuesday November 10, 6:00pm<\/strong> for a special guest lecture \"Huck<\/a>“The Story of Richard Scarry’s Busytown<\/em><\/strong>” with Scarry’s son, Richard “Huck” Scarry II. Also an artist and author of children\u2019s books, Huck Scarry published\u00a0a new Scarry picture book for the first time in the U.S. since the elder Scarry’s death in 1994. \u00a0With\u00a0Richard Scarry’s Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!<\/em> Huck Scarry\u00a0began a season of re-releasing Scarry’s classics to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry’s best-known book, Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever.<\/em> \u00a0The guest lecture event will take place in the Class of 1947 Room, Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut<\/strong> in Storrs. \u00a0The lecture is free and open to the public and is presented in conjunction with the 24th Annual Connecticut Children’s Book Fair<\/a> taking place at UConn on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15, 2015.<\/p>\n

Richard Scarry’s personal papers and\u00a0archives<\/a>, preserved and available in Archives and Special Collections at the Dodd Research Center,\u00a0document the creation, production, and distribution of his books for children. The archives are part of the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0contain materials and correspondence concerning Scarry’s early work, with Western Publishing and Little Golden Books, beginning in the 1950s. The\u00a0bulk of the material in the archives\u00a0concerns the works produced by Scarry during his later association with Random House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busytown, the\u00a0bustling\u00a0small town and home to such resident characters as Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, Police Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Fixit, and Hilda Hippo, was first depicted in the book\u00a0Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy World. \u00a0The fictional\u00a0town was a central feature … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,1,379,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}