Richard Scarry's The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

Illustrated by Richard Scarry

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Richard Scarry's The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

Featuring three classic fables, Richard Scarry's 1961 Little Golden Book is now available for a new generation!

The one and only Richard Scarry retells three beloved fables of Aesop in this must-have Little Golden Book, now back in print! Featuring The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The Fox and the Crow, and The Dog and His Bone, this witty classic—previously only available in a story collection—is now available as a Little Golden Book.

Little Golden Books have been loved by children for over 75 years. When they were first published in 1942, high-quality books for children hadn't been available at a price most people could afford. Little Golden Books changed that! Priced at just 25 cents and sold where people shopped…

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July 10, 2018

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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…

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PATRICIA SCARRY wrote many beloved children's books over the course of her career, including The Sweet Smell of Christmas; The Bunny Book; Good Night, Little Bear; Just for Fun; and many more. One of her frequent collaborators was her husband, Richard Scarry.