10% off all books and free delivery over £40 - Last Express Posting Date for Christmas: 20th December
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Books By Richard Scarry - Author

Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994), last name pronounced like "scary", was an enormously popular children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of 300 million worldwide.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where his parents ran a shop. The Scarry family enjoyed a comfortable life even during the time of the Great Depression. Following high school graduation, Scarry enrolled in a business college but soon dropped out, finding it not to his liking. He then studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II.

Scarry's characters are almost always anthropomorphic animals. Occasionally this leads to the irony of portraying animals as farmers, tending livestock, including the infamous example of a pig portrayed as a butcher, selling ham and frankfurters behind a counter. Using animals in place of humans allowed Scarry to avoid giving the characters specific racial or ethnic traits, which may have helped broaden their appeal. His books have been popular with children throughout the world.


 

Richard Scarry's Best Treasury Ever

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Pre-order. 25th September 2025

£22.50 £25.00

Best Counting Book Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Pre-order. 31st July 2025

£8.09 £8.99

Planes and Rockets and Things That Fly

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Pre-order. 8th May 2025

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's Best Daddy Ever!

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Pre-order. 1st April 2025

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's Best Bedtime Stories Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Pre-order. 27th February 2025

£8.99 £9.99

Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Pre-order. 16th January 2025

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's A Day at the Airport

Richard Scarry

Paperback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

A Day at the Police Station

Richard Scarry

Paperback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Busiest People Ever

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£13.49 £14.99

Richard Scarry's Best First Book Ever

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£13.49 £14.99

Richard Scarry's Colorful Cars and Trucks

Richard Scarry

Board book

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£4.05 £4.50

Richard Scarry's Best Teacher Ever!

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town

Richard Scarry

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£13.49 £14.99

Richard Scarry's Dr Doctor

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

Richard Scarry's Best Busy Year Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Richard Scarry's Busytown Seek and Find!

Richard Scarry

Board book

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£9.89 £10.99

Richard Scarry's Naughty Bunny

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Polite Elephant

Richard Scarry

Hardback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Boats

Richard Scarry

Board book

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Planes

Richard Scarry

Board book

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Cars

Richard Scarry

Board book

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Trucks

Richard Scarry

Board book

Not Available

Rooster Struts

Richard Scarry

Board book

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Be Careful, Mr. Frumble!

Richard Scarry

Paperback

In Stock

£4.49 £4.99

Richard Scarry's Bunnies

Richard Scarry

Board book

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Biggest Word Book Ever

Richard Scarry

Board book

Not Available

Best First Book Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Not Available

Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£13.49 £14.99

Richard Scarry's Great Big Mystery Book

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Funniest Storybook Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Not Available

Huckle's Opposites

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Not Available

Let's Count to Ten

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Not Available

Huckle's Good Manners

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Not Available

Great Big Schoolhouse

Richard Scarry

Hardback

Not Available

ABC Word Book

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Not Available

Busiest People Ever

Richard Scarry

Paperback

Not Available