Richard Hefter


Richard Hefter was an American author of books for young children.

Biography

Richard Hefter met children's author Jacquelyn Reinach in 1975. He was contracted at the time to write 26 books for the publishers Holt. After the contract expired he formed a publishing venture, Euphrosyne, with Reinach.
He is known as the creator of Stickybear and as the co-creator and illustrator for the Sweet Pickles library of books, and for the Strawberry Library of First Learning. The Sweet Pickles series went on to sell 40 million copies. Hefter described his aim as "trying to help children understand things like shyness, laziness and embarrassment in a humorous way."
In 1982, Hefter formed a computer software company, Optimum Resource. He died in 2011 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Works

The Strawberry Library of First Learning is a series of books written and illustrated by Hefter. Mr. Hefter is best known as the creator of Stickybear and as the illustrator for the Sweet Pickles library of books. All of the books in the Strawberry Library have a strawberry depicted somewhere on the cover. Many of the books in this series star Stickybear or other anthropomorphic animal
All were originally published by McGraw-Hill, Grosset & Dunlap, and Optimum Resources.
  1. A Noise in the Closet
  2. The Strawberry Book of Shapes
  3. One Bear, Two Bears: The Strawberry Number Book
  4. The Strawberry Book of Colors
  5. Some, More, Most
  6. Yes and No: A Book of Opposites
  7. The Strawberry Mother Goose
  8. Noses and Toes: An Up and Down and in and Out Book
  9. An Animal Alphabet
  10. One White Crocodile Smile: A Number Book
  11. Things that Go
  12. The Strawberry Look Book
  13. The Strawberry Word Book
  14. Strawberry Picture Dictionary
  15. Bears at Work
  16. Stickybear Book of Weather
  17. Jobs for Bears
  18. Watch Out! The Stickybear Book of Safety
  19. Lots of Little Bears: A Stickbear Counting Book
  20. Bears Away From Home
  21. Where is the Bear?
  22. Neat Feet
  23. Babysitter Bears
  24. Fast Food

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