It's the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and there's a new edition out to celebrate it.
In his essay for The Yale Review, cartoonist Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Building Stories, and the Acme Novelty Library) examines Richard Scarry's evolution as a children's book author and illustrator, tracing his journey from conventional commercial artist to creator of the beloved Busytown series, while weaving in personal memories of encountering Scarry's books as a child, the business history of Golden Books publishing, and his analysis of how Scarry's switch to animal characters and looser drawing style made his work more universally appealing. — Read the rest
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