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年齣生於波士頓，美國負盛名的兒童暢銷書作傢。一生創作兒童圖書三百餘部，全球銷量超過3億冊，是世界童書界的幽默大師。他的“金色童書”係列風靡世界四十餘年，陪伴瞭一代又一代人的成長，是美國傢庭書架和美國國傢圖書館的必藏書。以善良可愛的動物形象來模擬人類的行為，嚮孩子揭示日常生活的秘密，是斯凱瑞童書的一大特色。圖書中豐富的信息量，精心設計的微小細節，以及故事中的遊戲性和天馬行空般的想象，會引導孩子長時間地投入觀察和閱讀，培養他們的觀察力和想像力。斯凱瑞的童書對於幼兒學習語言，瞭解自然界和社會生活有著很大的幫助，非常適閤親子閱讀。斯凱瑞的童書中充滿瞭快樂和溫情，在世界範圍內受到瞭廣泛歡迎。他曾說：“我不希望我寫齣的書是那種讀過一遍以後就放在書架上，從此被遺忘的書。如果人們將我的書讀舊瞭，甚至破到需要用透明膠帶粘起來，是對我的褒奬。”1976年，斯凱瑞榮獲美國愛倫·坡特彆奬。

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This storybook is a collection of entertaining stories and poems involving celebrated children's book artist Richard Scarry's lovable cast of animal characters. These happy tales and lively illustrations make this treasury of the very best of Scarry's work the best storybook ever.