I Can Read It All by Myself: The Beginner Books Story

by Paul V. Allen

Book Overview

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children's classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn't stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to create Beginner Books, a whole new category...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496834054
• ISBN13: 9781496834058
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"