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Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House.Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearances for over 17 years on the panel game show What's My Line?
Random House was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random", which suggested the name Random House. [4]
Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg) – 1961 (1998 recolor Bright and Early Board Book edition [with new 2004 recolor Beginner Book pages added],) – Counting book for children; Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles by Bennett Cerf – 1960 (the 1999 edition replaces McKie's illustrations with new ones by Debbie Palen part of ...
[4] [5] Acknowledged influences include William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Bennett Cerf and Jan Harold Brunvand. [6] The first volume was published in 1981, and the books have subsequently been collected in both a box set and a single volume. There is also an audiobook version of each book, read by George S ...
Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Their first book was Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (1957), whose title character appears in the brand's logo.
Each year, our team tests children's books of all types and genres with young readers for the annual Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Awards. Many newer picks on this list of the greatest children's ...
He wrote the book after his editor at Random House, Bennett Cerf, bet him $50 (equivalent to $515 in 2023) that he could not write an engaging children's book using a vocabulary of only 50 distinct words. [1] [2] The bet was a response to Seuss's previous success, The Cat in the Hat, which was written using 236 distinct words. [3]
A popular choice of elementary school teachers and children's librarians, Hop on Pop ranked sixteenth on Publishers Weekly's 2001 list of the all-time best-selling hardcover books for children. [3] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of their "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".