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Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Fraser with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Their first book was Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (1957), whose title character appears in the brand's logo. Cerf compiled a list of 379 words as the basic vocabulary for young readers, along with another 20 slightly harder "emergency" words.Judith Morgan and Neil Morgan, Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography (Da Capo Press, 1996), . No more than 200 words were taken from that list to write The Cat in the Hat. Subsequent books in the series were modeled on the same requirement. Excerpt available at Google Books.
Beginner Books had only four titles in their catalog in 1958. Two years later, they were earning 1 million dollars a year. Random House acquired Beginner Books in 1960 and was the largest publisher of children's books in the United States.
| B- 1 | The Cat in the Hat | 1957 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B- 2 | The Cat in the Hat Comes Back | 1958 | ||
| B- 3 | A Fly Went By | 1958 | Michael McClintock | Fritz Siebel |
| B- 4 | The Big Jump and Other Stories | 1958 | Benjamin Elkin | Katherine Evans |
| B- 5 | A Big Ball of String | 1958/1993 | Marion Holland | Marion Holland (later Roy McKie) |
| B- 6 | Sam and the Firefly | 1958 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B- 7 | Going to the Moon (U.K.)/ You Will Go to the Moon | 1959 (later revised edition in 1971) | Mae and Ira Freeman | Robert Patterson (later Lee Ames) |
| B- 8 | Cowboy Andy | 1959 | Edna Walker Chandler | Everett Kinstler |
| B- 9 | The Whales Go By | 1959 | Fred Phleger | Paul Galdone |
| B-10 | Stop that Ball! | 1959 | Michael McClintock | Fritz Siebel |
| B-11 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Laughs | 1959 | Bennett Cerf | Carl Rose |
| B-12 | Ann Can Fly | 1959 | Fred Phleger | Robert Lopshire |
| B-13 | One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish | 1960 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-14 | The King's Wish and Other Stories | 1960 | Benjamin Elkin | Leonard Shortall |
| B-15 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles | 1960/1999 (part of Riddles and More Riddles) | Bennett Cerf | Roy McKie |
| B-16 | Green Eggs and Ham | 1960 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-17 | Put Me in the Zoo | 1960 | Robert Lopshire | |
| B-18 | Are You My Mother? | 1960 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B-19 | Ten Apples Up on Top! | 1961/1998/2004 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie |
| B-20 | Go, Dog. Go! | 1961 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B-21 | Little Black, a Pony | 1961 | Walter Farley | |
| B-22 | Look Out for Pirates! | 1961 | Iris Vinton | H. B. Vestal |
| B-23 | A Fish Out of Water | 1961 | Helen Palmer | P. D. Eastman |
| B-24 | More Riddles | 1961/1999 (part of Riddles and More Riddles) | Bennett Cerf | Roy McKie |
| B-25 | Robert the Rose Horse | 1962 | Joan Heilbroner | P. D. Eastman |
| B-26 | I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo | 1962 | Helen Palmer | Lynn Fayman (photographs) |
| B-27 | Snow | 1962 | Roy McKie and P. D. Eastman | |
| B-28 | (reissue)/ The Big Honey Hunt | 1962 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-29 | 1963 | Dr. Seuss | ||
| B-30 | Dr. Seuss's ABC | 1963 | ||
| B-31 | Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday? | 1963 | Helen Palmer | Lynn Fayman (photographs) |
| B-32 | Summer | 1963/2001 | Alice Low | Roy McKie |
| B-33 | Little Black Goes to the Circus | 1963 | Walter Farley | |
| B-34 | Bennett Cerf's Book of Animal Riddles | 1964 | Bennett Cerf | Roy McKie |
| B-35 | Why I Built the Boogle House | 1964 | Helen Palmer | Lynn Fayman (photographs) |
| B-36 | The Bike Lesson (U.K.)/ The Berenstain Bears: The Bike Lesson (reissue)/ The Bike Lesson: Another Adventure of the Berenstain Bears | 1964 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-37 | The Beginner Book of Things To Make: previously published as How to Make Flibbers, etc. (reissue)/ How to Make Flibbers, etc.: A Book of Things to Make and Do | 1964 | Robert Lopshire | |
| The Cat in the Hat Dictionary (U.K.)/ The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary | 1964 | P. D. Eastman (credited as by the Cat himself and P. D. Eastman) | ||
| B-38 | Fox in Socks (reissue)/ Fox in Socks: A Tongue Twister for Super Children | 1965 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-39 | The King, the Mice and the Cheese | 1965 | Nancy and Eric Gurney | Eric Gurney |
| B-40 | I Wish That I Had Duck Feet | 1965 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | B Tobey |
| B-41 | The Berenstain Bears: The Bears' Picnic (reissue)/ The Bears' Picnic | 1966 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-42 | Don and Donna Go to Bat | 1966 | Al Perkins | B Tobey |
| B-43 | You Will Live Under the Sea | 1966 | Fred Phleger | Ward Brackett |
| B-44 | Come over to My House | 1966/2016 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Richard Erdoes (later Katie Kath) |
| B-45 | Babar Loses His Crown | 1967 (later released in 2004) | Laurent de Brunhoff | |
| B-46 | The Berenstain Bears: The Bear Scouts (reissue)/ The Bear Scouts | 1967 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-47 | The Digging-est Dog | 1967 | Al Perkins | Eric Gurney |
| B-48 | Hugh Loftings' Travels of Dr. Dolittle | 1967 | Philip Wende | |
| The Cat in the Hat Songbook | 1967 | Dr. Seuss, piano score and guitar chords by Eugene Poddany | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-49 | Hugh Loftings' Doctor Dolittle and the Pirates | 1968 | Al Perkins | Philip Wende |
| B-50 | Off to the Races | 1968 | Fred and Marjorie Phleger | Leo Summers |
| B-51 | The Best Nest | 1968 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B-52 | The Berenstain Bears: The Bears' Vacation (reissue)/ The Bears' Holiday (U.K.)/ The Bears' Vacation | 1968 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-53 | Ian Flemings' Story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! the Magical Car | 1968 | Al Perkins | B Tobey |
| B-54 | King Midas and the Golden Touch | 1969 | Harold Berson | |
| My Book about Me | 1969 | Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie | ||
| I Can Draw It Myself | 1970 | Dr. Seuss | ||
| B-55 | The Berenstain Bears: The Bears' Christmas (reissue)/ The Bears' Christmas | 1970 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| Some of Us Walk, Some Fly, Some Swim | 1971 | Michael K. Frith | ||
| B-56 | Tubby and the Lantern | 1971 | Al Perkins | Rowland B. Wilson |
| B-57 | Tubby and the Poo-Bah | 1972 | ||
| The Berenstain Bears in: The Bears' Almanac | 1973 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | ||
| B-58 | Autographs! I Collect Them (reissue)/ My Amazing Book of Autographs | 1974 | Michael K. Frith | |
| B-59 | Wacky Wednesday | 1974 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | George Booth |
| B-60 | The Berenstain Bears: The Bear Detectives: The Case of the Missing Pumpkin (reissue)/ The Bear Detectives: The Case of the Missing Pumpkin | 1975 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-61 | Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo! | 1975 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Rosetta Stone) | Michael K. Frith |
| B-62 | Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! | 1975 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-63 | Please Try to Remember the First of Octember! | 1977 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Art Cumings |
| B-64 | I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! | 1978 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-65 | Oh Say Can You Say? | 1979 | ||
| B-66 | The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone | 1980 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-67 | Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! | 1980/2020 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Michael J. Smollin (later Kelly Kennedy) |
| B-68 | It's Not Easy Being a Bunny | 1983 | Marilyn Sadler | Roger Bollen |
| B-69 | Spooky Riddles | 1983 | Marc Brown | |
| B-70 | What Do Smurfs Do All Day? | 1983 | Peyo | |
| B-71 | The Very Bad Bunny | 1984 | Marilyn Sadler | Roger Bollen |
| B-72 | I Want to Be Somebody New!: The Sequel to Put Me in the Zoo (reissue)/ I Want To Be Somebody New! | 1986 | Robert Lopshire | |
| B-73 | The Black Stallion | 1986 | Walter Farley | Sandy Rabinowitz |
| B-74 | I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! | 1987 | Dr. Seuss | James Stevenson |
| B-75 | The Cat's Quizzer | 1976/1993 | Dr. Seuss | |
| Beginning Readers' Yearbook 1994 | 1994 | |||
| The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books | 1994 | |||
| B-76 | Stop, Train, Stop! A Thomas the Tank Engine Story | 1995 | Rev. W. Awdry | Owen Bell |
| The Big Red Book of Beginner Books | 1995 | |||
| B-77 | New Tricks I Can Do! | 1996 | Robert Lopshire | |
| B-78 | Anthony the Perfect Monster | 1996 | Angelo DeCesare | |
| The Big Book of Berenstain Bears Beginner Books | 1996 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | ||
| B-79 | 4 Pups and a Worm | 1996 | Eric Seltzer | |
| B-80 | Honey Bunny Funnybunny | 1997 | Marilyn Sadler | Roger Bollen |
| B-81 | Come Down Now, Flying Cow! | 1997 | Timothy Roland | |
| B-82 | Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? | 1997 | Eleanor Hudson | Joe Mathieu |
| The Big Green Book of Beginner Books | 1997/2022 | |||
| Put Me in the Alphabet!: A Beginner Workbook About ABC's | 1997 | Robert Lopshire | ||
| I Want to Count Something New: A Beginner Workbook About 123's | 1997 | |||
| Pigs of a Feather | 1998 | Tish Rabe | Michael Letzig | |
| Match This, P. J. Funnybunny!: A Beginner Workbook About Matching and Sorting | 1998 | Marilyn Sadler | Roger Bollen | |
| What's Next, P. J. Funnybunny?: A Beginner Workbook About Sequencing | 1998 | Marilyn Sadler and Judith Conaway | ||
| B-83 | Mercer Mayer's Critters of the Night: Roast & Toast | 1998 | Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere | |
| B-84 | Monster Munchies | 1998 | Laura Numeroff | Nate Evans |
| B-85 | Babe the Sheep Pig: A Little Pig Goes a Long Way | 1999 | Mallory Loehr | Christopher Moroney |
| B-86 | The Land Before Time | 1999 | Molly Goode | Beverly Lazor-Bahr |
| B-87 | Riddles and More Riddles!: Previously Published as Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles and More Riddles | 1960/1961/1999 | Bennett Cerf | Debbie Palen |
| B-88 | Flap Your Wings | 1969/1977/2000 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B-89 | The Berenstain Bears: That Stump Must Go! | 2000 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |
| B-90 | Paws and Claws | 2001 | Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere | |
| B-91 | Thomas and Friends: A Crack In the Track | 2001 | Rev. W. Awdry | Tommy Stubbs |
| B-92 | Big Dog...Little Dog | 1973/2003 | P. D. Eastman | |
| B-93 | Thomas and Friends: Go, Train, Go! A Companion Book to Stop, Train, Stop! | 2005 | Rev. W. Awdry | Tommy Stubbs |
| B-94 | Fred and Ted Go Camping | 2005 | Peter Eastman | |
| B-95 | Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow | 2006 | Martha Freeman | Steven Salerno |
| B-96 | Fred and Ted Like to Fly | 2007 | Peter Eastman | |
| B-97 | The Belly Book | 2008 | Joe Harris | |
| B-98 | Thomas and Friends: Trains, Cranes & Troublesome Trucks | 2008 | Rev. W. Awdry | Tommy Stubbs |
| B-99 | Have You Seen My Dinosaur? | 2010 | Jon Surgal | Joe Mathieu |
| Fred and Ted's Road Trip | 2011 | Peter Eastman | ||
| The Big Book of Berenstain Bears Beginner Books | 2011 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | ||
| My Big Book of Beginner Books about Me | 2011 | |||
| The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books | 2012 | |||
| B-101 | A Pet Named Sneaker | 2013 | Joan Heilbroner | Pascal Lemaitre |
| Thomas' Big Book of Beginner Books | 2013 | |||
| Squirrels on Skis | 2013 | J. Hamilton Ray | Pascal Lemaitre | |
| The Big Orange Book of Beginner Books | 2015 | |||
| The Big Aqua Book of Beginner Books | 2017 | |||
| B-103 | DC Super Friends: Catch That Crook | 2018 | Laura Hitchcock | Elisabetta Melaranci and Giulia Priori |
| B-104 | Dreamworks' Trolls: Too Many Cupcakes | 2018 | David Lewman | Fabio Laguna and Grace Mills |
| B-105 | What Pet Should I Get? | 2015/2019 | Dr. Seuss | |
| B-106 | Dr. Seuss's 123 | 2019 | ||
| B-107 | A Skunk in My Bunk! | 2019 | Christopher Cerf | Nicola Slater |
| B-108 | Can You See Me? | 2019 | Bob Staake | |
| B-109 | Shut the Door! | 1993/2020 | Robert Lopshire | Maria Karipidou |
| B-110 | If I Had Your Vote | 2020 | Alastair Heim | Tom Brannon |
| B-111 | The Pink Book | 2020 | Diane Muldrow | Mike Yamada |
| B-112 | A Ticket for Cricket | 2021 | Molly Coxe | |
| B-113 | If I Ran Your School | 2021 | Alastair Heim | Tom Brannon |
| B-114 | I Can Be Anything! | 2021 | Bob Staake | |
| B-115 | It's Better Being a Bunny | 2022 | Marilyn Sadler | Tim Bowers |
| B-116 | Busy Street | 2022 | Edward Miller | |
| B-117 | If I Were Saint Nick: A Christmas Story | 2022 | Alastair Heim | Tom Brannon |
| B-118 | How to Love a Pony | 2023 | Michelle Meadows | Sawyer Cloud |
| ''The Big Violet Book of Beginner Books | 2023 | |||
| B-119 | Bunny with a Big Heart | 2023 | Marilyn Sadler | Tim Bowers |
| B-120 | Dr. Seuss's If You Think There's Nothing to Do | 2024 | ||
| B-121 | If I Drove An Ice Cream Truck | 2024 | Alastair Heim | Tom Brannon |
| B-122 | How to Love a Kitten | 2024 | Michelle Meadows | Sawyer Cloud |
| B-123 | Hello, Sun | 2025 | Lala Watkins | |
| B-124 | Gertrude Gish on a Dish on a Fish | 2025 | Sarah Hwang | |
| B-125 | Best Bunny Brother Ever | 2026 | Marilyn Sadler | Tim Bowers |
| B-126 | If It Were My Birthday Party | 2026 | Alastair Heim | Tom Brannon |
| Momo Sees the Sea | 2026 | Avani Dwivedi | ||
| A Trip with BLIP | 2026 | Jerrard K. Polk | ||
| Dinosaur Day | 2026 | Edward Miller | ||
| BE-1 | The Foot Book | 1968 | Dr. Seuss | 1.1 | |||
| BE-2 | The Eye Book | 1968/1999 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie (later Joe Mathieu) | 1.3 | 140L | |
| BE-3 | The Ear Book | 1968/2007 | Al Perkins | William O'Brian (later Henry Payne) | 2.4 | ||
| BE-4 | The Berenstain Bears: Inside Outside Upside Down/Inside, Outside, Upside Down | 1968 | Stan and Jan Berenstain ("by" credit on the original issue cover) | 1.6 | |||
| BE-5 | Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb | 1969 | Al Perkins | Eric Gurney | 1.5 | ||
| BE-6 | The Berenstain Bears: Bears on Wheels/Bears on Wheels: A Bright and Early Counting Book | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1969 | Stan and Jan Berenstain ("by" credit on the former prints) | 1.2 | ||
| BE-7 | Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises | 1970 | Dr. Seuss | 2.9 | |||
| BE-8 | The Nose Book | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1970/2002 | Al Perkins | Roy McKie (later Joe Mathieu) | 1.5 | 290L |
| BE-9 | The Berenstain Bears: Old Hat New Hat/Old Hat, New Hat | 1970 | Stan and Jan Berenstain ("by" credit on the original issue cover) | 1.7 | |||
| The Berenstain Bears: Bears in the Night/Bears in the Night | 1971 | 1.1 | |||||
| BE-11 | Berenstains' B Book/ The Berenstains' B Book | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1971 | Stan and Jan Berenstain (both credited on the reissue) | |||
| I Can Write | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1971 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie | |||
| BE-12 | In a People House | 1972 | 2.5 | ||||
| BE-13 | Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! | 1972 | Dr. Seuss | 2.4 | 100L | ||
| BE-14 | C Is for Clown: A Circus of "C" Words/ Berenstains' C Book | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1972 | Stan and Jan Berenstain ("by" credit on the original issue) | |||
| BE-15 | The Pop-Up Mice of Mr. Brice/ The Many Mice of Mr. Brice | out of print | 1973 | Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie | ||
| BE-16 | The Shape of Me and Other Stuff | 1973 | Dr. Seuss | 2.4 | 350L | ||
| BE-17 | I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words | 1973 | Michael Frith | P. D. Eastman | |||
| BE-18 | There's a Wocket in My Pocket! | 1974 | Dr. Seuss | 2.1 | 320L | ||
| BE-19 | Great Day for Up | 1974 | Dr. Seuss (by) | Quentin Blake (pictures by) | 1.9 | ||
| The Berenstain Bears: He Bear, She Bear/He Bear, She Bear | 1974 | Stan and Jan Berenstain ("by" credit on the original issue cover) | 2.5 | 460L | |||
| BE-21 | Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? | 1975 | Dr. Seuss (as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie | |||
| BE-22 | Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! | 1976/2006 | Charles E. Martin (later Scott Nash) | ||||
| BE-23 | The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree | 1978 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | 1.7 | 100L | ||
| BE-24 | The Hair Book | 1979/2019 | Graham Tether | Roy McKie (later Andrew Joyner) | |||
| BE-25 | The Tooth Book | 1981/2000 | Dr. Seuss (as Theo. LeSieg) | Roy McKie (later Joe Mathieu) | 2.6 | 400L | |
| BE-26 | Wings on Things | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1982 | Marc Brown | 2.1 | 180L | |
| BE-27 | The Berenstain Bears on the Moon | 1985 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | 1.7 | 40L | ||
| BE-28 | Snug House, Bug House! | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1994 | Susan Schade and Jon Buller | 1.5 | ||
| BE-29 | Snow Bugs | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1996 | ||||
| BE-30 | Berenstains' A Book | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1997 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |||
| BE-31 | It's Not Easy Being Big! | Grolier and Early Moments only | 1998 | Stephanie St. Pierre | John Lund | ||
| BE-32 | Mama Loves | Scholastic Book Club only | 1999 | Molly Goode | |||
| BE-33 | Bear in the Big Blue House: Where is Bear? | out of print | 1999 | Tish Rabe | |||
| BE-34 | Richard Scarry's Chuckle with Huckle! and Other Easy-to-Read Funny Stories | Early Moments only | 2005 | Jane E. Gerver | Richard Scarry II | ||
| BE-35 | The Knee Book | Early Moments only | 2005 | Graham Tether | |||
| BE-36 | Money Money Honey Bunny | 2006 | Marilyn Sadler | Roger Bollen | |||
| BE-37 | Thomas and Friends: Blue Train, Green Train | 2006 | Rev. W. Awdry | ||||
| BE-38 | Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs – X Marks the Spot | out of print | 2007 | R. Schuyler Hooke | Art Mawhinney | ||
| BE-39 | Thomas and Friends: Fast Train, Slow Train | out of print | 2009 | Rev W. Awdry | |||
| BE-40 | Ten Eggs in a Nest | Early Moments and eBook only | 2014 | Marilyn Sadler | Michael Fleming | ||
| BE-41 | The Alphabet Book | 1974/2000/2015 | P. D. Eastman Peter Eastman | ||||
| The Big Book of Berenstain Bears Stories | 2016 | Stan and Jan Berenstain | |||||
| BE-42 | Dr. Seuss's Book of Animals | 2018 | Dr. Seuss | ||||
| BE-43 | Dr. Seuss's Book of Colors | 2018 | Dr. Seuss | ||||
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