# Mercer Mayer — books assigned in US schools

**2** books by Mercer Mayer appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Grade span:** K–3
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/mercer-mayer
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- baths
- boys, fiction
- frogs
- monsters
- monsters in fiction
- monsters, fiction
- picture books

## Genres

- Realistic Fiction (2)

## Every Mercer Mayer title on file

- [A Boy, a Dog and a Frog](https://readinglist.school/book/a-boy-a-dog-and-a-frog) _(Grades K–1 · 1967)_
- [Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp](https://readinglist.school/book/liza-lou-and-the-yeller-belly-swamp) _(Grades K–3 · 1976)_

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