Mercer Mayer bibliography

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This is a list of the works of Mercer Mayer.

The following is a partial list of books that Mercer Mayer has written and/or illustrated. It also includes books and items that are related to Mercer Mayer and his creations (like coloring books, sticker books, lacing cards, toys, etc.).

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Little Critter is an anthropomorphic character created by Mercer Mayer. Although it's not specified what species the Little Critter is, he resembles a porcupine. Little Critter first appeared in the 1975 book Just for You. This book is sometimes mistitled Just for Yu because of the childlike mistake on the front cover (see picture).

The following books feature Little Critter.

Little Critter main series

Published in the Golden Books "Look-Look Books" series
Individual books may also be available in special editions

The new adventures

Continuation of the main series with HarperFestival
same dimensions, may contain some stickers, or other items.

Scholastic series

Portrait shaped in different sizes

Special publications

Little Golden Books

A numbered series. These were re-released by Scholastic and as a part of Mercer Mayer's Little Critter Book Club

Little Sister (of Little Critter)

Published as Golden Books "Little Look-Look Books"

Little Critter Storybooks featuring the "Critter Kids"

These were initially published by Scholastic publishing as accordion-style fold-out board books.
Most were republished by Random House and Green Frog as regular hardcover and softcover books.

Readers

Published by Random House, McGraw-Hill Children's Publishing, and by School Specialty Publishing

Boardbooks

Published by Little Simon (Simon & Schuster), Random House, Golden Books, GT Publishing and HarperFestival

Lift-a-Flap Books

Published by multiple publishing houses. Some were originally released as hardcovers and then later re-released as Chunky Flap Board Books (two ISBN numbers are listed when this is the case).

Activity books

Collections

Little Critter workbooks

By Spectrum & Brighter Child (for Homeschool)

Critters of the Night

AKA Creepy Critters, all written by Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere (illustrated by Mercer Mayer)

Mercer Mayer's LC + the Critter Kids

All written by Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere (illustrated by Mercer Mayer)

Other Little Critter titles

Little Monster series

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Little Monster's Bedtime Book by Mercer Mayer

Little Monster is an anthropomorphic character created by Mercer Mayer. He is a dinosaur-like dragon. Little Monster first appeared in the 1977 book Little Monster's Word Book, but many characters in the Little Monster series were first introduced in the 1975 book One Monster After Another and the 1976 book Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-A-Zoo.

Books that feature the character Little Monster:

Professor Wormbog series

Creatures in the Professor Wormbog series tend to also appear in the Little Monster series of books.

Books that feature characters that also appear in the Little Monster and Professor Wormbog series.

Boy, Dog, Frog series

A series of 6 wordless books. These have been re-released in many formats, but they are usually smaller in size.

Tink Tonk series

AKA A Tiny Tink! Tonk! Tale series published by Bantam Books. Also see the Mercer Mayer Computer Software section for the video game titles related to this series that were developed by Mercer Mayer.

"There's a..." series

One word series

A series of virtually wordless books featuring a male and a female anthropomorphic hippopotamus or elephant and the word that is in the title.

Liverwurst series

Both books in this series are written by Mercer Mayer, but illustrated by Steven Kellogg:

Fairy tale and classic story re-telling

Moral Tales series

Wordless flip-books featuring two stories

"Bird's New Hat"
"Bear's New Clothes"
"Sly Fox's Folly"
"Just a Pig at Heart"

Other Mercer Mayer books

Illustrations for other authors' books

Illustrations for George Mendoza's books

Books written by George Mendoza that Mercer Mayer illustrated:

Illustrations for Jan Wahl's books

Book by Jan Wahl that Mercer Mayer illustrated:

Illustrations for Jay Williams' books

Book by Jay Williams that Mercer Mayer illustrated:

Illustrations for John D. Fitzgerald's Great Brain series

Books from John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain series that were originally illustrated by Mercer Mayer. Some later releases had new front covers by a different illustrator, but were still illustrated by Mercer Mayer on the inside. The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald

  1. The Great Brain (1967) (by John D. Fitzgerald)
  2. More Adventures of the Great Brain (1969) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-5819-7
  3. Me and My Little Brain (1971) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-5531-7
  4. The Great Brain at the Academy (1972) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-3039-X
  5. The Great Brain Reforms (1973) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-3067-5
  6. The Return of the Great Brain (1974) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-7403-6
  7. The Great Brain Does it Again (1975) (by John D. Fitzgerald) ISBN   0-8037-5065-X

Illustrations for Barbara Wersba's books

Books by Barbara Wersba that Mercer Mayer illustrated:

Magazine appearances

Mercer Mayer recordings (audio books and other)

Audio books

What do You do with a Kangaroo (released on cassette, CD, and download) - read by Jane Casserly There's a Nightmare in My Closet (released as an Audible.com download) - read by Mo Godin

Little Critter

Most of these are from Disneyland Records and Little Golden Books (usually labeled as a "Little Golden Book & Cassette" or "Little Golden Book & Record"). These are books that came with a word for word audio recording on record (speed = 331⁄3, size = 7") or cassette tape of someone reading the story. They usually included music, sound effects, and original songs too. Sometimes the cassettes were labeled "Record your own story" on the B-side (with the original recording on the A-side). "SEE the pictures HEAR the record READ the book", was a catch phrase that was written on most of these books.

  • Just For You (1984) ASIN B000JFJCIM
  • Just Me and My Dad
  • Merry Christmas Mom & Dad (Includes the original songs "Merry Christmas Mom and Dad" and "Dear Santa") Series # 226 (1983) ISBN per Amazon was 9-9963-6247-7 (out of print)
  • Just Go To Bed (1986) ISBN   0-307-13798-8
  • Just Grandpa and Me (1986) ISBN   0-307-13942-5
  • Just Grandma and Me (1986) ISBN per Amazon was 9-9988-8357-1
  • Just Me and My Babysitter (1986) ISBN   0-307-13943-3
  • When I Get Bigger (1986) ISBN   0-307-13799-6
  • Little Critter's The Night Before Christmas ISBN   978-1-4027-6799-9

Mercer Mayer recordings

Audio CDs that are available on Mercer Mayer's official site.

Other known Mercer Mayer songs

These songs are either mentioned on the official Mercer Mayer website or featured on it, but are not currently available otherwise.

Mercer Mayer computer software

CD-Roms

The CD-Roms usually included the original story and additional material (animations, audio) for fun and educational purposes (they were produced in association with Mercer Mayer's company Big Tuna New Media, LLC).

The Tink! Tonk! series of games were educational and action video game style.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Just Grandma and Me's "quality ... is unmatched and goes with the highest recommendation". [1]

Announced but unreleased books

Critter Kids

This is a list of Critter Kids books with dates originally scheduled for late 2006 but they have yet to be released:

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References

  1. ↑ "Forging Ahead or Fit to be Smashed?". Computer Gaming World. April 1993. p. 24. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
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