Richard Scarry's Getting Ready for School Workbook 金色斯凯瑞-准备上学练习册 ISBN 9780679865544

　　"I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once andthen placed on the shelf and forgotten," Richard Scarry once said."I am very happy when people write that they have worn out mybooks, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I considerthat the ultimate compliment." Considering the propensity ofScarry's preschool-age readership to ask for their favorite booksagain and again, it's a compliment he must have received oftenduring his tenure as one of the most popular children's authors ofall time.　　Scarry began his career as a freelance illustrator, drawingpictures to accompany the text of books by children s authors suchas Margaret Wise Brown, Kathryn Jackson, and Patricia Murphy (whobecame Patricia Scarry when she married Richard in 1949). His firsttwo efforts at writing his own books, The Great Big Car andTruck Book (1951) and Rabbit and His Friends (1953),already suggest some of his interests as an author: travel,technology, and talking animals.　　But it was the 1963 publication of Richard Scarry's Best WordBook Ever that put Scarry on bestseller lists, and establishedhis signature style. Its densely packed pages are populated byanthropomorphic animals at work and play, in drawings that rewardmultiple readings with details children (and parents) may notnotice at first glance. The large-format book contains over 1400illustrated and labeled objects, along with simple introductions toconcepts like sharing and helping.　　In Busy, Busy World (1965), Scarry's animals star in aseries of international adventures in such far-flung locales asParis, Rome, and Algeria. Well before multiculturalism was aneducational buzzword, Scarry believed he could use animals to helpchildren imaginatively enter others' experiences. In aPublishers Weekly interview, he explained that "children canidentify more closely with pictures of animals than they can withpictures of another child. They see an illustration of a blond girlor a dark-haired boy, who they know is somebody other thanthemselves, and competition creeps in. With imagination -- andchildren all have marvelous imagination -- they can easily identifywith an anteater who is a painter or a goat who is an Indian."