Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Construction Site - (Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Board Books) (Board Book)

About the Book

Little builders can put on their hard hats work alongside huge dump trucks, gigantic bulldozers, powerful ditch-diggers, and more in this fun-filled construction site board book, out in time to celebrate Scarry's 100th birthday. Full color.

Book Synopsis

Put on your hard hats for a fun day at the construction site in this board book by the one and only Richard Scarry! With over 60 labeled vehicles and objects to marvel at, working in construction has never been so much fun!

Head to work alongside huge dump trucks, gigantic bulldozers, and powerful ditch-diggers in this board book all about construction vehicles! Little builders will learn the names and purposes of many different vehicles found on a construction site, including tractors, excavators, ditch-diggers, cranes, and more! Children can also observe the kinds of tools that are used to build houses and roads, such as hammers, traffic cones, shovels, and pipes.

Complete with bold, easy-to-read text and Richard Scarry's signature vibrant illustrations, Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Construction Site paves the way for a fun and educational reading experience.

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About the Author

RICHARD SCARRY (1919-1994) is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! Generations of children all over the world have grown up spending hours poring over his books filled with all the colorful details of their daily lives. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. (Whenever he was asked how old he was, Scarry would always put up one hand and laugh, saying, "five!")

Born in 1919, Richard Scarry was raised and educated in Boston, Massachusetts. After five years of drawing maps and designing graphics for the US 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 the perfect home for his work. The assignments first given to Scarry tended to be Little Golden Books that featured popular characters of the day, such as Winky Dink, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Smokey the Bear. Eventually, Scarry created his own original characters, such as Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic classic I Am a Bunny.

In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated more than 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in more than twenty languages. Richard Scarry Jr., also an illustrator, carries on his father's work today under the name of Huck Scarry. Richard Scarry passed away at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1994. He was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.