Mercer Mayer (born December 30, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles (see his bibliography for a list). Mayer is probably best known for his "Little Critter" and "Little Monster" series of books.
Mayer's father was in the United States Navy, so the family moved many times during his childhood before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii. There, Mayer graduated from high school in 1961. While attending school at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mayer decided to enter the field of children's book illustration. To that end, he created a portfolio of sketches and peddled them wherever he could. Though his professors feared the young artist would never be good enough to make a living as an illustrator, Mayer was not dissuaded.
Mayer moved from Hawaii to New York City in 1964, pursuing further instruction at the Art Students League of New York, where he met an artist named Marianna who became his first wife. He also met an art director who told Mayer that his portfolio was so bad that he needed to throw it away. Though offended, Mayer did. During his spare time from his job at an advertising agency, the artist created a completely new portfolio. These new sketches persuaded editors at Dial Press and Harper & Row to give him some illustration work.
Mayer published his first book, A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, at Dial Press in 1967. It was notable for being a completely wordless picture book—one that tells its story entirely through the use of pictures. Mayer was one of the first illustrators to be credited for using this format. Five more books in this series were to follow.
The book There's a Nightmare in My Closet drew on Mayer's childhood fears of monsters in his room at night. Critics compared the book, unfavorably, to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, but children and their parents loved the story and it became very popular.
Mayer joined Golden Publishing, creators of Little Golden Books, in 1976. Through them he has sold his "Little Critter" and "Little Monster" series, which are popular with beginning readers.
In 1978, Mayer divorced Marianna. The following year, he married his second wife, Jo. The couple had three children, Len, Arden and a daughter named Jessie. Mayer and his third wife Gina, with whom he had two more sons (Ben and Zebulon) currently live in Roxbury, Connecticut. Gina has been collaborating with him on many of his books since the early 1990s.
In addition to writing and illustrating his own books, Mayer has collaborated on many projects with other children's authors. He has illustrated books for John Bellairs, Jane Yolen, Jan Wahl, Jay Williams, John D. Fitzgerald, among others.
Little Critter is staying over at his friend's house for the first time. Will Little Critter be able to sleep in a strange house where butlers open the door and napkins are folded in funny shapes? With his usual style and humor, Mercer Mayer's best-selling character, Little Critter, will make children laugh at this all-too-familiar situation...Mile 2 books offer word play and pattern stories to keep beginners hooked, and 2-3 lines of text per page to keep them challenged.
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评分非常好非常超值的一次购物,画面图案很鲜艳宝宝很喜欢,正在给宝宝读当中
评分书的内容很棒!我家6岁小男孩超级最爱小毛人。不少单本已经收了,所以没有收集全套,不过真的非常合适。里面的画面很漂亮,色彩艳丽,适合初级学英语的小孩。不过我个人也很爱。
评分书很好,给妹妹囤着的,希望早日能读。
评分Little Critter is staying over at his friend's house for the first time. Will Little Critter be able to sleep in a strange house where butlers open the door and napkins are folded in funny shapes? With his usual style and humor, Mercer Mayer's best-selling character, Little Critter, will make children laugh at this all-too-familiar situation...Mile 2 books offer word play and pattern stories to keep beginners hooked, and 2-3 lines of text per page to keep them challenged.
评分是孩子很喜欢的一个人物,以前听过音频,喜欢模仿里面小毛怪的说话声,这次年末没抽到200-100,300-150这些活动,但是原版活动本来不多,320-120也收了吧,关键是孩子喜欢,作为新年礼物给孩子读读看看,能收获孩子的欢乐贵了点也值得的.
评分不错,孩子喜欢,正版
评分买了很久,总算到了,马上给孩子们读了,很喜欢。
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