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.

Beginner Books are known to use only the 379 words, considered the basic vocabulary for young readers, which Cerf compiled with only twenty new words allowed per book.

Their first book was Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat of 1957.[1] 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.

[edit] List of Beginner Books

B-1 The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1957
B-2 The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss, 1958
B-3 A Fly Went By, Mike McClintock, 1958
B-4 The Big Jump and other stories, Benjamin Elkin, 1958
B-5 A Big Ball of String, Marion Holland, 1958
B-6 Sam and the Firefly, P.D. Eastman, 1958
B-7 You Will Go to the Moon, Mae and Ira Freeman, 1959
B-8 Cowboy Andy, Edna Walker Chandler, 1959
B-9 The Whales Go By, Fred Phleger, 1959
B-10 Stop That Ball, Mike McClintock, 1959
B-11 Book of Laughs, Bennett Cerf, 1959
B-12 Ann Can Fly, Fred Phleger, 1959
B-13 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Dr. Seuss, 1960
B-14 The King's Wish, Benjamin Elkin, 1960
B-15 Book of Riddles, Bennett Cerf, 1960
B-16 Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss, 1960
B-17 Put Me in the Zoo, Robert Lopshire, 1960
B-18 Are You My Mother?, P.D. Eastman, 1960
B-19 Ten Apples Up On Top, Dr. Suess, 1961
B-20 Go, Dog. Go!, P.D. Eastman, 1961
B-21 Little Black, A Pony, Walter Farley, 1961
B-22 Look Out For Pirates!, Iris Vinton, 1961
B-23 A Fish Out of Water, Helen Palmer, 1961
B-24 More Riddles, Bennett Cerf, 1961
B-25 Robert the Rose Horse, Joan Heilbroner, 1962
B-26 I was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo, Helen Palmer, 1962
B-27 Snow, Roy McKie and P.D. Eastman, 1962
B-28 The Big Honey Hunt, Stanley and Janice Berenstain, 1962
B-29 Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss, 1963
B-30 Dr. Seuss's ABC, Dr. Seuss, 1963
B-31 Summer, 2001
B-32 The Riddle Book, Roy McKie, 2007
38 Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss, 1965
Extra 3 The Cat in the Hat Song Book, Dr. Seuss, 1967
Extra 4 My Book about Me, Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie, 1970
B-39a The Bike Lesson, Stan and Jan Berenstain, 2003
B-39b There's a Nightmare in my Closet, 2007
B-43a Little Black goes to the Circus, Walter Farly, 2007
B-Extra 5 I can Darw it Myself, Dr. Seuss
B43b You Live Under the Sea, Frederick Phleger, 1966
B44 Come over to My House, Theo. LeSieg, 1966
B45 Babar Loses His Crown by Laurent de Brunhoff, 1966
61 Because a Little Bug went Ka-Choo, by Rosetta Stone, 1975
63 The CAT'S Quizzer, Dr. Seuss, 1976
B-64 I can read with my eyes shut!, Dr. Suess, 1978
B-65 Oh Say Can You Say?, Dr. Seuss, 1979
B-66 The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone, Stan and Jan Berenstain, 1980
B-Extra 8 Maybe you should fly a jet!, Theo LeSieg, 1980
B-67 The Bears Scots, Stan and Jan Berenstain, 2003
B-68 It's Not Easy Being a Bunny, Marilyn Sadler, 1983
B-69 Spooky Riddles, Marc Brown, 1983
B-70 What Do SUMRFS Do All Day?, Peyo, 1983
B-71 The Very Bad Bunny, Marilyn Sadler, 1984
B-72 I Want to Be Somebody New!, Robert Lopshire, 1986
B-Extra 6 Hunches in Bunches, Dr. Seuss, 1982
B-73 The Black Stallion, Walter Farley, 1986
B-74 I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!, Dr. Seuss, 1987
B-76 Stop, Train, Stop!, Rev. W. Awdry, 1995
B-77 New Tricks I Can Do, Robert Lopshire, 1996
B-78 Anthony the Perfect Monster, Angelo De Cesare, 1996
B-79 4 PUPS and a WORM, Eric Seltzer, 1996
B-80 Honey Bunny Funnybunny, Marilyn Sadler, 1997
B-81 Come Down Now, Flying Cow!, Timothy Roland, 1997
B-82 Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?, Eleanor Hudson, 1997
B-83 ?????
B-84 Monster Munchies, Laura Numeroff, 1998
B-85 A Little Pig Goes a Long Way, Mallory Loehr, 1999
B-86 The Land Before Time, Molly Goode, 1999
B-87 Riddles and More Riddles, Bennett Cerf, 1999
B-88 Flap Your Wings, P.D. Eastman, 2000
B-89 That Stump Must Go, Stan & Jan Berenstain, 2000
B-90 Paws and Claws, Erica Farber, 2001
B-91 A Crack in the Track, Rev. W. Awdry, 2001
B-92 Big Dog ... Little Dog, P.D. Eastman, 2001
B-95 Go, Train, Go!, Rev. W. Awdry, 2005
B-93 Fred and Ted Go Camping, Peter Eastman, 2005
B-96 Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow, Martha Freeman, 2006
B-94 Fred and Ted Like to Fly, Peter Eastman, 2007