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·斯凯瑞，1919年出生于波士顿，美国负盛名的儿童畅销书作家。一生创作儿童图书三百余部，全球销量超过3亿册，是世界童书界的幽默大师。他的“金色童书”系列风靡世界四十余年，陪伴了一代又一代人的成长，是美国家庭书架和美国国家图书馆的必藏书。以善良可爱的动物形象来模拟人类的行为，向孩子揭示日常生活的秘密，是斯凯瑞童书的一大特色。图书中丰富的信息量，精心设计的微小细节，以及故事中的游戏性和天马行空般的想象，会引导孩子长时间地投入观察和阅读，培养他们的观察力和想像力。斯凯瑞的童书对于幼儿学习语言，了解自然界和社会生活有着很大的帮助，非常适合亲子阅读。斯凯瑞的童书中充满了快乐和温情，在世界范围内受到了广泛欢迎。他曾说：“我不希望我写出的书是那种读过一遍以后就放在书架上，从此被遗忘的书。如果人们将我的书读旧了，甚至破到需要用透明胶带粘起来，是对我的褒奖。”1976年，斯凯瑞荣获美国爱伦·坡特别奖。