Beginner Books
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Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel.
Their first book was Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (1957). The rest of the series was modeled on the requirement Seuss set himself in writing that book: authors may only use words from a list of 379 words compiled by Cerf as the basic vocabulary for young readers, along with twenty more from a larger list of slightly harder words, and one "emergency word" of their choice.
With only four titles in their catalog in 1958, they were earning a million dollars a year two years later, making Random House the largest publisher of children's books in America.
Early contributors
Among authors of early Beginner Books are:
- Theodor Seuss Geisel, writing as Dr Seuss when he illustrated his own stories, and as Theo LeSieg or Rosetta Stone when others did.
- Robert M. Lopshire
- Bennett Cerf
- Al Perkins
- Helen Palmer Geisel, writing as Helen Palmer.
- P. D. Eastman (Philip Dey Eastman)
- Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Benjamin Elkin
Among illustrators of early Beginner Books are:
Complete Series of Random House's Beginner Books
ID | Title | Author | Illustrator |
---|---|---|---|
B- 1 | The Cat in the Hat | Dr Seuss | Dr Seuss |
B- 2 | The Cat in the Hat Comes Back | Dr Seuss | Dr Seuss |
B- 3 | A Fly Went By | Mike McClintock | Fritz Siebel |
B- 4 | The Big Jump & Other Stories | Benjamin Elkin | Katherine Evans |
B- 5 | A Big Ball of String | Marion Holland | |
B- 6 | Sam and the Firefly | P. D. Eastman | P. D. Eastman |
B- 7 | You Will Go To the Moon | ||
B- 8 | Cowboy Andy | ||
B- 9 | The Whales Go By | ||
B-10 | Stop That Ball! | ||
B-11 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Laughs | ||
B-12 | Ann Can Fly | ||
B-13 | One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish | Dr Seuss | Dr Seuss |
B-14 | The King's Wish | Benjamin Elkin | |
B-15 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles | ||
B-16 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr Seuss | Dr Seuss |
B-17 | Put Me in the Zoo | Robert Lopshire | |
B-18 | Are You My Mother? | P. D. Eastman | |
B-19 | Ten Apples Up On Top! | Theo Lesieg | |
B-20 | Go, Dog, Go! | P. D. Eastman | P. D. Eastman |
B-21 | Little Black, A Pony | ||
B-22 | Look Out For Pirates! | ||
B-23 | A Fish Out of Water | Helen Palmer | P. D. Eastman |
B-24 | Bennett Cerf's More Riddles | ||
B-25 | Robert the Rose Horse | Joan Heilbroner | P. D. Eastman |
B-26 | I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo | Helen Palmer | |
B-27 | Snow | ||
B-28 | The Big Honey Hunt | ||
B-29 | Hop On Pop | Dr Seuss | |
B-30 | Dr. Seuss's ABC | Dr Seuss | |
B-31 | Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? | Helen Palmer | |
B-32 | Summer | ||
B-33 | Little Black Goes to the Circus | ||
B-34 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Animal Riddles | ||
B-35 | Why I Built the Boogle House | Helen Palmer | |
B-36 | The Bike Lesson | ||
B-37 | The Beginner Book of Things To Make/How to Make Flibbers, etc | ||
B-38 | Fox in Socks | Dr. Seuss | |
B-39 | The King, the Mice and the Cheese | ||
B-40 | I Wish That I Had Duck Feet | Theo LeSieg | |
B-41 | The Bears' Picnic | ||
B-42 | Don and Donna Go To Bat | ||
B-43 | You Will Live Under the Sea | ||
B-44 | Come Over To My House | Theo LeSieg | |
B-45 | Babar Loses His Crown | ||
B-46 | The Bear Scouts | ||
B-47 | The Digging-est Dog | Al Perkins | |
B-48 | (Hugh Loftings') The Travels of Dr. Dolittle | Al Perkins | |
B-49 | (Hugh Loftings') Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates | Al Perkins | |
B-50 | Off To The Races | ||
B-51 | The Best Nest | P. D. Eastman | |
B-52 | The Bears' Vacation | ||
B-53 | (Ian Flemings' Story of) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! the Magical Car | Al Perkins | |
B-54 | King Midas and the Golden Touch | Al Perkins | |
B-55 | The Bear's Christmas | ||
B-56 | Tubby and the Lantern | Al Perkins | |
B-57 | Tubby and the Poo-Bah | Al Perkins | |
B-58 | My Amazing Book of Autographys! | ||
B-59 | Wacky Wednesday | Theo LeSieg | |
B-60 | The Bear Detectives | ||
B-61 | Because a Little Bug Went Ko Choo! | Rosetta Stone | |
B-62 | Oh, the Think You Can Think! | Dr Seuss | |
B-63 | Please Try To Remember the First of Octember! | Theo LeSieg | |
B-64 | I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! | Dr Seuss | |
B-65 | Oh Say Can You Say? | Dr Seuss | |
B-66 | The Missing Dinosaur Bone | ||
B-67 | Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! | Theo LeSieg | |
B-68 | It's Not Easy Being a Bunny | ||
B-69 | Spooky Riddles | ||
B-70 | What Do Smurfs Do All Day? | ||
B-71 | The Very Bad Bunny | ||
B-72 | I Want To Be Somebody New! | ||
B-73 | The Black Stallion | ||
B-74 | I Am Not Going To Get Up Today! | Dr Seuss | |
B-75 | The Cat's Quizzer | Dr Seuss | |
B-76 | Stop, Train, Stop! | ||
B-77 | New Tricks I Can Do! | ||
B-78 | Anthony The Perfect Monster | ||
B-79 | 4 Pups and a Worm | ||
B-80 | Honey Bunny Funnybunny | ||
B-81 | Come Down Now, Flying Cow! | ||
B-82 | Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? | ||
B-83 | Roast & Toast | ||
B-84 | Monster Munchies | ||
B-85 | Babe the Sheep Pig-A Little Pig Goes a Long Way | ||
B-86 | The Land Before Time | ||
B-87 | Riddles and More Riddles | ||
B-88 | Flap Your Wings | P. D. Eastman | |
B-89 | That Stump Must Go! | ||
B-90 | Paws and Claws | ||
B-91 | A Crack In the Track | ||
B-92 | Big Dog....Little Dog | P. D. Eastman | |
B-93 | Go, Train, Go! | ||
B-94 | Fred and Ted Go Camping | ||
B-95 | Mrs. Wow Never Wants a Cow | ||
B-96 | Fred and Ted Like to Fly | ||
B-97 | The Belly Book | ||
B-98 | Trains, Cranes and Troublesome Trucks |
Beginner Books in the future
Random House has been announced that the two-volume Beginner Book Stories 7-in-1 by Dr. Seuss series will be released in bookstores and other retailers around November 6, 2008.
The following volumes in that series include:
- The Cat in the Hat
- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- There's a Wocket in My Pocket
- Fox in Socks
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
- The Foot Book
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Hop on Pop
- Oh Say Can You Say
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now
- Dr. Seuss's ABC
- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can YOU?