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Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature
The illustrator Chris Ware surveys the work of Richard Scarry.
While watching television or reading or drawing in the guest room, I’d smell the English muffin toasting and the breaded pork chops and potatoes cooking, and I’d see the setting sunlight warming the house’s old wood shingles—and I’d know my grandmother would have that three-tomato salad on the side, ready for me, just like the pigs were having in Richard Scarry’s book. Leapfrogging to the rank of lieutenant (a prerequisite for his new post as art director of the Army in North Africa), he arrived at the port of Casablanca in somewhat plum circumstances, tasked with creating morale-boosting propaganda by doing things like illustrating information manuals and guidebooks and drawing maps describing the worldwide progress of Allied fighting. The brainchild of Georges Duplaix and Lucille Ogle, two editors at Western’s recently opened East Coast offices in Poughkeepsie, New York, Golden Books employed displaced if not just plain refugee artists from Europe like Feodor Rojankovsky, Tibor Gergely, and Gustaf Tenggren.
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