Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World

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The Busy World of Richard Scarry - The Talking Bread". YouTube. 13 March 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Best Busy People Video Ever! (Video 1993)". IMDb. 17 August 1993. Archived from the original on 8 February 2017 . Retrieved 30 June 2018. Best ABC Video Ever! (Video 1989)". IMDb. 15 March 1989. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017 . Retrieved 30 June 2018. Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever! (Video 1994)". IMDb. 23 August 1994. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017 . Retrieved 30 June 2018. When there is a misprint in The Bugle, the townspeople think that the sun will disappear for 360 years.

On August 4, 2015, Mill Creek Entertainment released The Busy World of Richard Scarry- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 which includes bonus episodes of Busytown Mysteries, Wimzie's House and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. [7] Music a b Owens, Darryl E. (September 23, 1995). "Scarry's talent: Finding magic in the mundane" ". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17 . Retrieved 2021-11-16. Scarry's most famous series of books was about Busytown and revolved around anthropomorphic animals. While his books are largely populated by common animal species, he proved to be quite adept at giving human characteristics to a seemingly endless number of creatures, machines, and creations. Many of his later illustrations feature characters in traditional Swiss clothing and show architecturally correct drawings of half-timber houses. Get Ready for School (Video 1986)". IMDb. 1986. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12 . Retrieved 2018-06-30. But the book is hugely Eurocentric, especially Northern/Western European. It spends a huge chunk of the book going on a country-by-country ethnic stereotyping tour of the Nordic and Western European countries. Being of Nordic descent, at first this was entertaining, but when I realized that the book spends almost zero time covering South America, Africa, or Asia, I became disappointed. It also has a bad habit of depicting women as nagging wives.

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Best Sing-Along Mother Goose Video Ever! (Video 1994)". IMDb. 23 August 1994. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017 . Retrieved 30 June 2018. Busytown was featured at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh from June 13 to September 8, 2002, in an interactive exhibit, Richard Scarry's Busytown. [13] His books were popular with children throughout the world with over 100 million copies sold. [1] Busytown has been praised for its educational value. By presenting animals in having different roles, for example "bear" and "mailman" young children are encouraged to conceive of objects as displaying different conceptual attributes simultaneously. That is, each one can be easily seen as belonging to two categories at the same time. [7] It has also been described as helping children learn prescience skills. The presentation of different scenarios along with questions like :what do you think might happen next" taught children to interact with and think about what is happening in the drawings. [8] Books by Richard Scarry were revised over the course of their several editions, often to make them conform to changing social values. His Best Word Book Ever, which first introduced in 1963, was issued in 1980 as a "new revised edition" which altered images and text to remove material which could be perceived as offensive due to gender, ethnic, or religious misconceptions. Characters in "cowboy" or "Indian" costumes were either removed or given nondescript clothing. Moral and religious elements and depictions of gender roles were altered or removed (for instance, a menorah was added into a Christmas scene, and the words "he comes promptly when he is called to breakfast", referring to a father bear, were changed to "he goes to the kitchen to eat his breakfast"). Characters engaged in activities reflecting traditional gender roles were altered so as to make the scenes more gender-neutral (e.g., a male character was added into a kitchen scene, a cowboy was replaced with a female gardener and a female scientist, the phrase "pretty stewardess" was changed to "flight attendant", and male characters engaged in traditionally masculine activities such as driving a steamroller were altered into female characters by the addition of hair bows or pink flowers, etc.). In some cases these changes necessitated removing whole sections altogether, including the "Out West" section, the "buildings" section (which had depicted a church, a cathedral, and a French Foreign Legion fortress), and sections on painting and music making. [16] [17] A Guide to the Richard Scarry Papers at the University of Connecticut Archives & Special Collections

Best Word Book Ever ( ISBN 0-307-15510-2), first published 1963, reprinted 1970, "new revised edition" 1980 Richard Scarry Animal Nursery Tales (Video 1986)". IMDb. 1986. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12 . Retrieved 2018-06-30. a b c Pace, Eric (3 May 1994). "Richard Scarry, 74, Children's Book Author and Illustrator, Dies". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017 . Retrieved 5 February 2022.Couscous catches Pepe and his Dirty Rats by trapping them in an Egyptian pyramid that they are searching for treasure in. Keith Knight as Lowly Worm, Harry Hyena, Snozzle, Able Baker Charlie, Soybean Goat, additional voices

And speaking of stereotyping -- whoa. What may have passed as "tongue-in-cheek" punny naming of characters when this book was written is largely unacceptable today. A student who wrote stories like these in school would likely be disciplined. Scarry was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Mary McClure and John Scarry Sr., who were of Irish-American ancestry and ran a small department store chain. [3] [4] Scarry had four siblings: older brother John Jr., younger sister Barbara, and younger brothers Edward and Leo. [5] The family enjoyed a comfortable life at their 32 Melville Avenue home in the Dorchester neighborhood, [5] even during the Great Depression. Busytown also refers to the media franchise that spawned from Scarry's books. From 1989 to 1994, Random House Home Video and Jumbo Pictures produced the first basic educational learning animated series called Richard Scarry's Best Videos Ever! on home video. In the early 1990s, Cinar produced the animated series The Busy World of Richard Scarry, featuring the inhabitants of Busytown. The series originally aired on Showtime in the United States. [1] A board game and a computer game based on Busytown were also produced in the 1990s. Another animated series centered on Busytown, Busytown Mysteries, ran in the late 2000s. A family is rescued by their kind king, and to thank him, the family promises to give the king a gift.The grouchy Mr. Gronkle is angry when kids start skating on his frozen pond, but ends up needing their help. Richard Scarry's Old MacDonald's Farm and Other Animal Tales (Video 1986)". IMDb. 1986. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12 . Retrieved 2018-06-30. Martin, John Levi (March 2000). "What do animals do all day?: The division of labor, class bodies, and totemic thinking in the popular imagination". Poetics. 27 (2–3): 195–231. doi: 10.1016/s0304-422x(99)00025-x. ISSN 0304-422X. a b Liukkonen, Petri. "Richard Scarry". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 2 January 2008. Second Generation of Fun". wandering-scientist.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-23 . Retrieved 2013-02-23.