Richard Hefter (March 20, 1941 – May 6, 2011) was an American author of books for young children. WorldCat
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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 ''

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'' and as the co-creator (with Reinach) and illustrator for the ''

Sweet Pickles ''Sweet Pickles'' is a series of 40 children's books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter and published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, having sold over 50 million copies. The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickl ...

'' 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

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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

and as the illustrator for the

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

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animal All were originally published by

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, and ''Optimum Resources''. # ''A Noise in the Closet'' (1974) # ''The Strawberry Book of Shapes'' (1977) # ''One Bear, Two Bears: The Strawberry Number Book'' (1980) # ''The Strawberry Book of Colors'' (1980) # ''Some, More, Most'' (Written By

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and Illustrated by Richard Hefter) # ''Yes and No: A Book of Opposites'' # ''The Strawberry Mother Goose'' (Written by Lawrence Di Fiori and Illustrated by Richard Hefter) # ''Noses and Toes: An Up and Down and in and Out Book'' # ''An Animal Alphabet'' # ''One White Crocodile Smile: A Number Book'' # ''Things that Go'' # ''The Strawberry Look Book'' # ''The Strawberry Word Book'' # ''Strawberry Picture Dictionary'' # ''Bears at Work'' # ''Stickybear Book of Weather'' # ''Jobs for Bears'' (1983) # ''Watch Out! The Stickybear Book of Safety'' (1983) # ''Lots of Little Bears: A Stickbear Counting Book'' (1983) # ''Bears Away From Home'' (1983) # ''Where is the Bear?'' (1983) # ''Neat Feet'' (1983) # ''Babysitter Bears'' (1983) # ''Fast Food'' (1983)

Other software

* ''Fat City'' (1983), a first-person

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by Hefter and Steve Worthington where the player controls a wrecking ball and needs to destroy a number of buildings within a time limit. * ''Old Ironsides'', a

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game by Hefter and Jack Rice. * ''Chivalry'' (1985), a medieval adventure game co-written by Hefter and Janie and Steve Worthington.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hefter, Richard American children's writers American children's book illustrators 1941 births 2011 deaths