An irresistible record book for capturing the key events of your baby’s first year, featuring the beloved characters from the bright and busy illustrated world of children's book author Richard Scarry.

New parents will love rediscovering the nostalgic world of Richard Scarry as they record their newborn’s milestones in this joyful and whimsical keepsake album filled with Scarry’s beloved characters. Busy, Busy Baby allows parents to record all the details, small and momentous, of a baby’s first year, from pregnancy and birth to favorite lullabies, first smile, and more.

There’s a spot for planting hand and footprints (“front and back paw prints here”), monthly recaps of development, and dozens of illustrations throughout, including Lowly Worm inching up the page where you capture baby’s growth, Huckle Cat spilling food on the entry for baby’s first meal, and Goldbug peeking out from an envelope where you can tuck welcome cards and baby’s hospital bracelet.

Special features include:
• Two envelopes for saving a lock of hair and other treasures
• Two sheets of milestone stickers
• A large pocket on the inside back cover for storing larger keepsakes

For more than fifty years, millions of children have learned their words from Richard Scarry’s classic picture books; now, new parents and grandparents can revel in his funny, frenzied characters while creating memories for their children.

Richard Scarry is one of the world’s best-loved children’s authors. In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world and are currently published in over twenty languages. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012.