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Scarry, Richard

LC control no.n 79046225
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPZ7.S327 Juvenile fiction, English
Personal name headingScarry, Richard
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Variant(s)סקרי, ריצ׳רד
LocatedGstaad (Switzerland)
Birth date1919-05-05
Death date1994-04-30
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Profession or occupationIllustrator Author
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
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Found inJackson, K. Mouse's house.
Richard Scarry's best counting book ever, 2010: ECIP t.p. (Richard Scarry) data view (b. May 5, 1919)
New York times WWW site, Nov. 23, 2010 (in obituary published May 3, 1994: Richard Scarry; b. Richard McClure Scarry, 1919; d. Saturday [Apr. 30, 1994], Gstaad, Switzerland, aged 74; best-selling author and illustrator of children's books)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1919)
Wikipedia, Oct 18, 2014 (Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919-April 30, 1994) was a popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide. Scarry was born in Boston, Massachusetts.Scarry died of a heart attack in Gstaad on April 30, 1994. Scarry began his career in 1949 as an illustrator of books by other people, specifically Kathryn & Byron Jackson's Mouse's House. He continued as only or primarily an illustrator through 1955, then began turning out original books.)
Associated languageeng