The Big Red Book of Beginner Books [Hardcover]

What’s a better present than a classic Beginner Book? Six of them—for less than the price of two! Following on the success ofThe Big Blue Book of Beginner BooksandThe Big Green Book of Beginner Books,we’ve taken the complete text and art of P. D. Eastman’sSam and the Firefly,Robert Lopshire’sI Want to Be Somebody New!,Marilyn Sadler’sThe Very Bad Bunny,Mike McClintock’sStop That Ball!,Al Perkins’sThe Digging-est Dog,and Joan Heilbroner’sRobert the Rose Horseand bound them together in one sturdy hardcover omnibus. This is a perfect introduction to reading that will whet young readers’ appetites for additional books in the Beginner Book series.P. D. Eastman was an author-illustrator who created many children’s books, including Are You My Mother?, Go, Dog. Go!, and The Best Nest. Trained at the National Academy of Design, he enlisted in the army in 1943 and was assigned to the Signal Corps Film Unit—which was headed by Theodor Geisel, who would eventually become known to the world as Dr. Seuss. After Geisel later approached him to write for his new Beginner Book series at Random House, Eastman published his first book, Sam and the Firefly. Since then, Random House has sold more than 30 million books by P. D. Eastman, and he has become one of the most beloved children’s book authors in the world. 

Al Perkins was the author of several Bright and Early Books and Beginner Books, among them Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb; and The Ear Book. Perkins passed away in 1975. 

Robert Lopshirewrote and illustrated the Beginner Books Put Me in the Zoo, I Want to Be Somebody New!, and New Tracks I Can Do! He died in 2002.

Joan Heilbroner is best known for her first book,&#l“/