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Chris Ware on Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature.

The full story of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go on it’s 50th anniversary.

As fascinated by the industrial world as any serious truck-spotting four-year-old, Scarry captures the ballet of traffic in a sort of frozen mimesis that’s reanimated by the act of reading and page-turning itself.

The original cover sketch for Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go