Mercer Mayer bibliography


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.

Little Critter related books

Little Critter is an anthropomorphic character created by Mercer Mayer. Although it's not specified what species the Little Critter is, many have speculated him to be a groundhog, guinea pig, hamster, wombat or 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.
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
Continuation of the main series with HarperFestival
same dimensions, may contain some stickers, or other items.
Portrait shaped in different sizes
A numbered series. These were re-released by Scholastic and as a part of Mercer Mayer's Little Critter Book Club
Published as Golden Books "Little Look-Look Books"
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.
Published by Random House, McGraw-Hill Children's Publishing, and by School Specialty Publishing
Published by Little Simon, Random House, Golden Books, GT Publishing and HarperFestival
Published by multiple publishing houses. Some were originally released as hardcovers and then later re-released as Chunky Flap Board Books.
By Spectrum & Brighter Child
AKA Creepy Critters, all written by Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere
All written by Erica Farber and J. R. Sansevere
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:
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.
A series of 6 wordless books. These have been re-released in many formats, but they are usually smaller in size.
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.
A series of virtually wordless books featuring a male and a female anthropomorphic hippopotamus or elephant and the word that is in the title.
Both books in this series are written by Mercer Mayer, but illustrated by Steven Kellogg:
Wordless flip-books featuring two stories
Books written by George Mendoza that Mercer Mayer illustrated:
Book by Jan Wahl that Mercer Mayer illustrated:
Book by Jay Williams that Mercer Mayer illustrated:
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
  2. More Adventures of the Great Brain
  3. Me and My Little Brain
  4. The Great Brain at the Academy
  5. The Great Brain Reforms
  6. The Return of the Great Brain
  7. The Great Brain Does it Again

    Illustrations for Barbara Wersba's books

Books by Barbara Wersba that Mercer Mayer illustrated:

Audio books

What do You do with a Kangaroo - read by Jane Casserly
There's a Nightmare in My Closet - read by Mo Godin

Little Critter

Most of these are from Disneyland Records and Little Golden Books. These are books that came with a word for word audio recording on record 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. "SEE the pictures HEAR the record READ the book", was a catch phrase that was written on most of these books.
Audio CDs that are available on Mercer Mayer's official site.
These songs are either mentioned on the official Mercer Mayer website or featured on it, but are not currently available otherwise.

CD-Roms

The CD-Roms usually included the original story and additional material for fun and educational purposes.
The Tink! Tonk! series of games were educational and action video game style.
Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Just Grandma and Mes "quality... is unmatched and goes with the highest recommendation".

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: