There's an Alligator Under My Bed

Mercer Mayer's children's book career began when A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog was published by Dial in 1967. Kirkus Reviews called that pioneering wordless picture book "a thoroughly satisfying self-starter." Together with five further Frog books for Dial, it remains in print and continues to sell well in hardcover and paperback editions. Mr. Mayer's second book all his own, There's a Nightmare in My Closet, was published by Dial in 1968 and is widely regarded as a classic. The Los Angeles Times included it with The Wind in the Willows and The Little Prince in a selection of ten children's books to liven and enrich the growing-up years. After sixteen hardcover and thirteen paperback printings, it is now selling better than ever. The Washington Post called this Reading Rainbow title "a wonderfully ironic picture book about things that go bump in the night." Mr. Mayer's travels have taken him from Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was born, to Hawaii, where he studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, to Bridgewater, Connecticut, where he now lives with his wife Jo, their children, and their dog and cat and two horses. Another horse is on the way.Mayer, Mercer is the author of 'There's an Alligator Under My Bed', published 1987 under ISBN 9780803703742 and ISBN 0803703740.