Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm are heading around town, and every inch of every page is working: the school, the farm, the post office, the firehouse, Main Street on a busy morning. This is the classic Richard Scarry formula at full strength, a town where a child can watch carpenters, nurses, letter carriers, garbage workers and firefighters all doing their jobs at once.

Scarry understood that small children are obsessed with how the world works, and this big 48 page hardcover answers them scene by scene, with bold easy to read labels and little running jokes hidden everywhere. It is the book that gets read differently every night because there is always another corner nobody noticed yet.

Kids who love it graduate into asking what every grown up in the room does all day. Few gifts do more per dollar than a Scarry town.