{"id":957,"date":"2014-08-25T20:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2014\/08\/25\/nprbooks-richard-scarry-fans-and-you-know-who\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:55:40","slug":"nprbooks-richard-scarry-fans-and-you-know-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2014\/08\/25\/nprbooks-richard-scarry-fans-and-you-know-who\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nprbooks.tumblr.com\/post\/95760635490\/richard-scarry-fans-and-you-know-who-we-i-mean\" target=\"_blank\">nprbooks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Richard Scarry fans (and you know who we \u2026 I mean YOU are) rejoice! The artist\u2019s son Huck is publishing a previously undiscovered volume called\u00a0<em>Best Lowly Worm Book Ever<\/em><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He tells NPR\u2019s Scott Simon that he found the manuscript for\u00a0<em>Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!<\/em>\u00a0in his father\u2019s Swiss chalet.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I looked here and I looked there, and underneath my father\u2019s desk I indeed found a rather dusty gray portfolio,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And in there, there were a lot of sketches on tracing paper. So it was basically all sketched out and the text had been written \u2014 it was done with my father\u2019s typewriter and taped down onto the pages. But he never got around to doing the final art and so that\u2019s what I did.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/08\/23\/342483485\/lowly-worm-is-back-richard-scarry-jr-brings-dads-manuscript-to-life?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=books&amp;utm_term=artsculture&amp;utm_content=20140825\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of the story (and find out why it\u2019s okay that Lowly can kick a ball despite having \u2014 or being \u2014 only one leg) here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a child, I was more into Richard Scarry than Dr. Seuss. And I loved Lowly Worm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nprbooks: Richard Scarry fans (and you know who we \u2026 I mean YOU are) rejoice! The artist\u2019s son Huck is publishing a previously undiscovered volume called\u00a0Best Lowly Worm Book Ever! \u00a0He tells NPR\u2019s Scott Simon that he found the manuscript for\u00a0Best Lowly Worm Book Ever!\u00a0in his father\u2019s Swiss chalet. &ldquo;I looked here and I looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,27,90,89,88],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-best-richard-scarry-news-ever","tag-childhood-memories","tag-childrens-literature","tag-lowly-worm","tag-richard-scarry","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5foza-fr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}