Lot  of Four Classic 1960's Dr. Seuss Beginner Books Book Club Series Ten Apples Up on Top, Fox in Sox, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Are You My Mother?

This listing is for four (4) clean lightly loved pre owned vintage 1960's era books from the Book Club Edition of Dr. Seuss' Beginner Book Series.  The books are very clean and tight, but there is wear to the cover edges and especially the corners from age and storage.  The front and back covers of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish have some faint water spots.  Ten Apples Up On Top was written in 1961 by Dr. Seuss under the pen name Theo LeSieg which is his real name Theodore Geisel spelled backwards.  One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and Fox in Sox were written by Dr, Seuss in 1960 and 1965 respectively, and Are you My Mother? was written in 1960 by P.D. Eastman.  Beginner Books was a subsidiary of Random House partly owned by Dr. Seuss and his wife (Ted and Helen Geisel),  and for a time, Geisel was the editor.  The first Beginner Book published was The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss (1957).  Other well-known writers and illustrators whose books were included in this series were Jan and Stan Berenstain, P. D. Eastman, Walter Farley, Al Perkins, and Mike McLintock. Bennet Cerf.  The series was a response to Rudolf Flesch's book, Why Johnny Can't Read (1955) and was meant to provide a substitute for the widely used but bland Dick and Jane readers.

Ten Apples Up On Top! - Theo LeSieg published 1961 

Learning to count has never been more fun than in this crazy tale of a dog, a lion and a tiger all showing off how many apples they can balance on their heads as they skip, walk the tightrope and roller skate their way through the book.  This is the first Dr. Seuss book credited as one of his different pen names which he used for books written by him but illustrated by other artists.  This book was illustrated by Roy McKie.

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss published 1960

Written in 1960 by Dr. Seuss this is a simple rhyming book for beginning readers, with a freewheeling plot about a boy and a girl named Jay and Kay and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets.  Interspersed are some surreal and unrelated skits, such as a man named Ned whose feet stick out from his bed, a creature who has a bird in his ear, and one man named Joe who cannot hear the other man's call.  As of 2001, over 6 million copies of the book had been sold, placing it 13th on a list of "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books" from Publishers Weekly.  Based on a 2007 online poll, the NEA listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."  

Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss published 1965

First published in 1965 the book features two main characters, Fox, who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters, and Knox, a dog who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end.  The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox along with some props:  a box and a pair of socks.  After taking those rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added, chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks, and so on. As the book progresses, Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters.  Finally, as Fox gives Knox an extended dissertation on "Tweetle Beetles" who fight each other with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle on a noodle-eating poodle, a fed-up Knox interrupts and pushes him into the bottle, calling it a "tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks".  He then thanks an astonished Fox for all the "fun" and takes leave.  This book is a newer release as it has a glossy cover and a barcode on the back.

Are you My Mother? - P.D. Eastman published 1960 

This is a story about a hatchling bird whose mother, thinking her egg will stay in her nest where she left it, leaves her egg alone and flies off to find food, but the baby bird hatches while the mother is away.  The hatchling does not understand where his mother is so he goes to look for her. As he lacks the ability to fly, he walks, and in his search, he asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow if they are his mother.  Refusing to give up, he sees an old car, which he realizes certainly cannot be his mother.  In desperation, the hatchling calls out to a boat and a plane, and at last, he approaches and climbs onto the teeth of an enormous power shovel calling to it "Mother, Mother!".  After it belches "SNORT" from its exhaust stack, the bird cries "You are not my mother! You are a Snort!"  and as the machine shudders and grinds into motion, he cannot escape.  "I want my mother!" he sobs.  At that moment, the Snort drops the hatchling back into his nest, as his mother returns.  Much to their delight, the two are reunited and the baby bird recounts to his mother the adventures he had looking for her.