Richard Hefter

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

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 Stickybear and as the co-creator (with Reinach) and illustrator for the Sweet Pickles 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 Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

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 Stickybear and as the illustrator for the Sweet Pickles 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 anthropomorphic animal

All were originally published by McGraw-Hill, Grosset & Dunlap, and Optimum Resources.

...
Wikipedia