Richard Scarry's Peasant Pig and the Terrible Dragon: With Lowly Worm the Jolly Jester

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When the king declares a holiday in Busylande, everyone plays games and celebrates, including Peasant Pig and Lowly Worm. But later that afternoon, a hug dragon stops the festivities. The adventures of how Peasant Pig—a knight in not such shining armor—and Lowly Worm will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's fun, action packed tale filled with the surprises and wonderful characters that make every Richard Scarry story so beloved.

One of America's most enduring and best-selling artists and writers, Richard Scarry has contributed more than three hundred books to children and adults everywhere, a body of work that has ...

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Overview

When the king declares a holiday in Busylande, everyone plays games and celebrates, including Peasant Pig and Lowly Worm. But later that afternoon, a hug dragon stops the festivities. The adventures of how Peasant Pig—a knight in not such shining armor—and Lowly Worm will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's fun, action packed tale filled with the surprises and wonderful characters that make every Richard Scarry story so beloved.

One of America's most enduring and best-selling artists and writers, Richard Scarry has contributed more than three hundred books to children and adults everywhere, a body of work that has sold more than two hundred million copies in thirty languages.

Scarry began his career as an artist at a variety of magazines and as a freelance illustrator, drawing pictures for children's books. His big break occurred in 1949 with the publication of his first book, Two Little Miners.

Scarry's stories are filled with irresistible animals, all drawn in his distinctive style that has become recognizable to millions of people all over the world.

Richard Scarry passed away in 1994, but his son Huck has carried on the creative tradition.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402762956
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 3/3/2009
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 190,491
  • Age range: 5 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.10 (w) x 11.30 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry
Thousands of children have learned to read with Richard Scarry’s busy, colorful, generous books. But Scarry has done more than help kids read. With their bright illustrations, simple text, and gentle lessons on sharing and tolerance, Scarry's stories have also helped kids grow up and relate to people around them.

Biography

"I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten," Richard Scarry once said. "I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment." Considering the propensity of Scarry's preschool-age readership to ask for their favorite books again and again, it's a compliment he must have received often during his tenure as one of the most popular children's authors of all time.

Scarry began his career as a freelance illustrator, drawing pictures to accompany the text of books by children’s authors such as Margaret Wise Brown, Kathryn Jackson, and Patricia Murphy (who became Patricia Scarry when she married Richard in 1949). His first two efforts at writing his own books, The Great Big Car and Truck 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 Word Book Ever that put Scarry on bestseller lists, and established his signature style. Its densely packed pages are populated by anthropomorphic animals at work and play, in drawings that reward multiple readings with details children (and parents) may not notice at first glance. The large-format book contains over 1400 illustrated and labeled objects, along with simple introductions to concepts like sharing and helping.

In Busy, Busy World (1965), Scarry's animals star in a series of international adventures in such far-flung locales as Paris, Rome, and Algeria. Well before multiculturalism was an educational buzzword, Scarry believed he could use animals to help children imaginatively enter others' experiences. In a Publishers Weekly interview, he explained that "children can identify more closely with pictures of animals than they can with pictures of another child. They see an illustration of a blond girl or a dark-haired boy, who they know is somebody other than themselves, and competition creeps in. With imagination -- and children all have marvelous imagination -- they can easily identify with an anteater who is a painter or a goat who is an Indian."

Though Scarry soon abandoned exotic settings in favor of the fictional Busytown, he continued to illustrate different roles in society with cherubic critters like Postman Pig, Huckle Cat, Sergeant Murphy, and Lowly Worm. Once he had developed a cast of characters, he introduced them into everything from picture dictionaries and activity books to mystery stories and manners lessons.

Scarry's books, which have sold over 100 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, always reflected his own curiosity about the world. "Wherever I go, I'm watching," he liked to say. "Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things." In relating his discoveries to children, he expanded not only their vocabularies, but their understanding of the "busy world" as a social community in which people work, play, cooperate and share.

Good To Know

From 1941 through 1946, Scarry served in the U.S. Army. The army, he joked, "thought I would make a good radio repairman. My exam mark was minus 13, so they decided to make me a corporal." Scarry wound up as an art director for the Morale Services Section, and eventually rose to the rank of captain.

Richard Scarry's son Huck Scarry is also a writer and illustrator of children's books, including some new additions to the Busytown series. His nickname matches that of the title character in one of his father's favorite books, Huckleberry Finn.

    1. Also Known As:
      Richard McClure Scarry (full name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      June 5, 1919
    2. Place of Birth:
      Boston, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Death:
      April 30, 1994
    2. Place of Death:
      Gstaad, Switzerland

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  • Posted August 17, 2009

    Richard Scarry is a classic

    I am pleased and impressed that the Richard Scarry series continues! This is a story, rather than more of a picture/word book, but is equally enjoyed and asked-for by my sons, ages 2 and 4.

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