This will either make you laugh, cry or both. The Busy World of Richard Scarry — the book you combed-through hour after hour while sitting in your bed in feety-pajamas — has grown-up and become ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it.

Richard Scarry, a best-selling author and illustrator of children's books, died Saturday at Saanen hospital in Gstaad, Switzerland. He was 74. The cause was a heart attack, said his son, Richard Jr.