1950s Easy Readers

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Click here for a brief history of easy readers.

Note: Books from the Beginner Books and Bright and Early Books
series by Random house show the ID # assigned to the title.


B-1 The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss A "Beginner Book" c. 1957 Houghton Mifflin/ Random House	Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik Pictures by Maurice Sendak An "I Can Read" book c. 1957 Harper & Row Publishers	Danny and the Dinosaur Story and Pictures by Syd Hoff An "I Can Read" book c. 1958 Harper & Row	B-2 The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss A "Beginner Book" c. 1958 Houghton Mifflin	No Fighting, No Biting by Else Holmelund Minarik Pictures by Maurice Sendak An "I Can Read" book c. 1958 Harper & Row

B-3 A Fly Went By by Mike Mclintock Illustrated by Fritz Siebel A "Beginner Book" c. 1958 Random House	B-6 Sam and the Firefly Written and Illustrated by P. D. Eastman A "Beginner Book" c. 1958 Random House	B-10 Stop That Ball! by Mike McClintock Illustrated by Fritz Siebel A "Beginner Book" c. 1959 Random House	Father Bear Comes Home by Else Holmelund Minarik Pictures by Maurice Sendak An "I Can Read" book c. 1959 Harper & Row Publishers	Emmett's Pig by Mary Stolz Pictures by Garth Williams An "I Can Read" book c. 1959 Harper & Row Publisher