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Why Richard Scarry chose animals over humans in his revolutionary children's books

Mark Frauenfelder
Nov 25, 2024
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Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go: 50th Anniversary Edition

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) exa…

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