Fenster writes:
Richard Scarry’s books really were my favorites for reading to the kids. Well, other than Dr. Suess maybe, whose work sort of stands alone.
Scarry did his share of simple cartooning, and his characters and situations were typically memorable. But here and there he would show off an interesting painterly sense of color too. Here are some examples.
Or maybe I am just being sentimental for those days.
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
I loved his books as a kid. There were times during the week we’d trek upstairs to the school library and I’d be one of the first to seek out his books. They were huge in size. No words were necessary to get engrossed in the individual stories that made up the bigger story of each page. Each character had its own personality.
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Many of his pictures also displayed a simple , accurate and profound understanding of nature as well. The pictures in I AMA Bunny can make anybody that grew up in the country in the northeast miss a couple heartbeats. No message other than nature and it’s beauty. Thanks for this post
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Never heard of him, but I’m loving these pictures
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Beautiful. Who can blame you for feeling sentimental, nothing wrong with that. I’m feeling kind of sentimental myself.
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You have given me a memory of heaven and a reminder of the hell that is empty nest life. The wonderful times spent with my children at the library as they checked out Lowly Worm et al and then reading them together I shall never have again.
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Thanks a lot. I am two and a half years from the complete empty nest. I do miss the book-reading years, though the teen years seem to be good training for the future.
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