Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day was one of the seminal books of my childhood. There was something about flipping through page after page of anthropomorphized animals delivering the mail and ...

Farmer Alfalfa heads to town with an old truck full of corn. The truck is on the verge of collapse. But after selling his corn to Grocer Cat, Farmer Alfalfa uses the money to buy a new truck. On ...

Busytown Mysteries Season 2 is an animated series that follows Huckle Cat and her buddies who travel Busytown and come across a number of mysterious cases. Through clues and evidence, they try to ...

On the table where Sean Graney sat during a Children’s Theatre Company rehearsal of “Busytown the Musical” about a month ago were 12 shiny red apples, arranged in two tidy rows in front of him. These ...

For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling. From “Richard Scarry’s ...

A snowman appears on a summer day.

Richard Scarry’s wonderful world is coming to Main Street Theater! From Scarry’s book “What Do People Do All Day,” this musical version, “Busytown,” will play Saturdays at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. from Oct.

Young people can explore Busytown through May 5 at the Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St., Orlando. Busytown is based on the stories of children’s author Richard Scarry and features conveyor ...