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Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Cookbook
Hardcover
$20.00
Published on Nov 03, 2026 | 64 Pages
Bring the beloved characters from Richard Scarry’s busy, busy world into your kitchen with the twenty easy, hands-on recipes for chefs of all ages in this officially licensed, family-friendly cookbook.
Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Cookbook invites families to cook together, with twenty delightful recipes inspired by the beloved characters and scenes of Busytown. Now, for the first time, you can share Richard Scarry’s love for food with your own family using this charming cookbook of crowd-pleasing recipes to enjoy, including:
Designed for cooks of all ages and skill levels, the recipes encourage collaboration, creativity, and confidence for children as young as preschool and their adult family member. Each dish includes clear step-by-step instructions, simple ingredients, and tips that highlight basic kitchen skills such as following directions, measuring, mixing, and cleaning up along the way.
Packed with Scarry’s iconic, full-color illustrations, Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Cookbook combines education and entertainment in one whimsical package. It’s the perfect introduction to cooking for young readers, a joyful celebration of family time, and a nostalgic keepsake for generations of Richard Scarry fans.
Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Cookbook invites families to cook together, with twenty delightful recipes inspired by the beloved characters and scenes of Busytown. Now, for the first time, you can share Richard Scarry’s love for food with your own family using this charming cookbook of crowd-pleasing recipes to enjoy, including:
- Lowly Worm’s Apple Car
- Big Green Salad
- Robber Soup
- Ma Dog’s Cherry Pie
Designed for cooks of all ages and skill levels, the recipes encourage collaboration, creativity, and confidence for children as young as preschool and their adult family member. Each dish includes clear step-by-step instructions, simple ingredients, and tips that highlight basic kitchen skills such as following directions, measuring, mixing, and cleaning up along the way.
Packed with Scarry’s iconic, full-color illustrations, Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Cookbook combines education and entertainment in one whimsical package. It’s the perfect introduction to cooking for young readers, a joyful celebration of family time, and a nostalgic keepsake for generations of Richard Scarry fans.
Author
Richard Scarry
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 at Golden Books, he found the perfect home for his work. The assignments first given to Scarry tended to be Little Golden Books that featured popular characters of the day, such as Winky Dink, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Smokey the Bear. Eventually, Scarry created his own original characters, such as Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat. But first came Nicholas, a young rabbit clad in red overalls, for the now-iconic classic I Am a Bunny. In his extraordinary career, Richard Scarry illustrated more than 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in more than twenty languages. Richard Scarry Jr., also an illustrator, carries on his father’s work today under the name of Huck Scarry. Richard Scarry passed away at his home in Gstaad, Switzerland in 1994. He was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.
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