David Abraham Adler is an American children's author. He was born in New York City, New York in 1947. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in 1971. In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in 1976. Adler's next project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as a math teacher. In 1977, he created his most famous character, Cam Jansen, originally featured in Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, which was published that year. Adler married psychologist Renee Hamada in 1973, and their first child, Michael, was born in 1977. By that time Adler had taken a break from teaching and, while his wife continued her work, he stayed home, took care of Michael, and began a full-time writing career. Adler's son, Michael S. Adler, is now the co-author of several books with his father, including A Picture Book of Sam Adams, A Picture Book of John Hancock, and A Picture Book of James and Dolly Madison. Another son, Edward, was the inspiration for Adler's Andy Russell series, with the events described in the series loosely based on adventures the Adler family had with Edward's enthusiasm and his pets. As of November 2008, Adler has three sons and two grandsons. He lives in Woodmere, New York. (source: Wikipedia)
Series
Books
The Summer Camp Mysteries
2007
Bones and the Cupcake Mystery
2005
A Picture Book of Helen Keller
1990
A Picture Book of Samuel Adams
2005
The Chocolate Fudge Mystery
1993
The Day I Lost My Class Hamster
2006
Chanukah in Chelm
1997
A Picture Book of Alexander Hamilton
2019
A Picture Book of Sam Houston
2012
Bones and the Apple Pie Mystery
2013
Andy Russell, NOT Wanted by the Police
2001
The Mystery of Flight 54
1989
Heroes of the Revolution
2003
A Picture Book of Simon Bolivar
1992
Danny's Doodles
The Dog Biscuit Breakfast
2015
Hilde and Eli
Children of the Holocaust
1994
B. Franklin Printer
1992
Onion Sundaes
1994
Heroes for Civil Rights
2007
Time Zones
2010
President George Washington
2005
Bones and the Math Test Mystery
2008
Young Cam Jansen and the Lions' Lunch Mystery
2007
Young Cam Jansen and the Double Beach Mystery
2002
Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie
1996
The Mystery of the UFO
1980
Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth
1997
My Dog and the Birthday Mystery
1988
The Millionaire Mystery
2012
Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell
2000
The Number on My Grandfather's Arm
1987
The Mystery at the Monkey House
1985
The Fourth Floor Twins and the Skyscraper Parade
1987
Danny's Doodles
The Squirting Donuts
2014
The Fourth Floor Twins and the Sandcastle Contest
1988
Young Cam Jansen and the Spotted Cat Mystery
2006
Pass the Ball, Mo!
2018
The Triceratops Pops Mystery
1995
Calculator Riddles
1995
Shape Up!
Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons
1998
Honest Abe Lincoln
Easy-to-Read Stories about Abraham Lincoln
2008
Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles
2015
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver
1999
Simple Machines
Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys
2015
Danny's Doodles
The Jelly Bean Experiment
2013
Magnets Push, Magnets Pull
2017
A Little at a Time
1976
Frederick Douglass
A Noble Life
2010
Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery
2005
Young Cam Jansen and the Zoo Note Mystery
2003
A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez
2010
Prices! Prices! Prices!
Why They Go Up and Down
2015
The Spaghetti Max Mystery
2013
Young Cam Jansen and the Magic Bird Mystery
2012
Joe Louis
America's Fighter
2005
Light Waves
2018
Fraction Fun
1996
A Picture Book of George Washington
1989
We Remember the Holocaust
1989
The Green School Mystery
2008
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
2014
Young Cam Jansen and the 100th Day of School Mystery
2009
Let's Estimate
A Book About Estimating and Rounding Numbers
2017
The Scary Snake Mystery
1997
The Mystery of the Circus Clown
1983
Circles
2016
Fun with Roman Numerals
2008
Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
2010
Hiding From the Nazis
1997
A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson
1989
A Picture Book of John and Abigail Adams
2005
Mama Played Baseball
2003
A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale
1992
Young Cam Jansen and the Goldfish Mystery
2013
Things That Float and Things That Don't
2013
Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery
1999
The Fourth Floor Twins and the Fish Snitch Mystery
1985
Bones and the Roller Coaster Mystery
2009
The Story of Passover
2014
Place Value
2016
Cam Jansen
1989
The Basketball Mystery
2009
My Dog and the Green Sock Mystery
1986
Lucky Stars
1992
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass
1993
The Mystery of the Stolen Corn Popper
1986
Campy
The Story of Roy Campanella
2007
Young Cam Jansen set
2010
The Life and Cuisine Of Elvis Presley
1993
Easy Math Puzzles
1997
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison
1996
The Mystery at the Haunted House
1992
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
1992
Cam Jansen and the Joke House Mystery
2014
A Parade for George Washington
2020
The Metric System
2020
Mystery Math
A First Book of Algebra
2011
Don't Talk to me about the War
2008
A Picture Book of Paul Revere
1995
School Trouble for Andy Russell
1999
Young Cam Jansen and the Circus Mystery
2011
The Mystery Writer Mystery
2007
Satchel Paige
Don't Look Back
2007
America's Champion Swimmer
Gertrude Ederle
2000
The Ups and Downs of Gravity
2021
The Carsick Zebra and Other Animal Riddles
1983
Working with Fractions
2007
A Picture Book of Daniel Boone
2013
Get a Hit, Mo!
2016
Young Cam Jansen and the Speedy Car Mystery
2010
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus
1991
A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall
1997
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
1993
Solids, Liquids, Gases, and Plasma
2019
Don't Throw It to Mo!
2015
A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson
1990
Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery
2004
Hellen Keller
2003
A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee
1994
Wacky Jacks
1994
A Picture Book of Anne Frank
1993
Telling Time
2019
I Know I'm a Witch
1988
One Yellow Daffodil
A Hanukkah Story
1995
The Secret Service Mystery
2006
A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower
2002
Young Cam Jansen and the Molly Shoe Mystery
2008
Our Golda
The Story of Golda Meir
1984
It's a Baby, Andy Russell
2005
George Washington
An Illustrated Biography
1881
The Graduation Day Mystery
2011
A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin
1990
A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
1992
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2003
The Fourth Floor Twins and the Silver Ghost Express
1986
A Picture Book of John Hancock
2007
Bones and the Dog Gone Mystery
2004
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free At Last
1986
Bones and the Birthday Mystery
2007
The School Play Mystery
2001
The Twisted Witch
1986
The Ghostly Mystery
1996
A Picture Book of John F. Kennedy
1991
A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark
2003
The Birthday Mystery
2000
A Picture Book of Hanukkah
1982
Get on the Ice, Mo!
2022
Elvis My Dad
The Unauthorized Biography of Lisa Marie Presley
1990
Squares, Rectangles, and Other Quadrilaterals
2018
Happy Thanksgiving Rebus
1991
A Picture Book of Louis Braille
1997
The Babe & I
1999
The Snowy Day Mystery
2004
Malke's Secret Recipe
A Chanukah Story
1989
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt
1991
Spike It, Mo!
2022
The Catnapping Mystery
1998
The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball
1982
The Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones
1980
Triangles
2014
Lou Gehrig
The Luckiest Man
1997
A Picture Book of Davy Crockett
1996
Child of the Warsaw Ghetto
1995
My Dog and the Key Mystery
1982
Kick It, Mo!
2018
The House on the Roof
A Sukkot Story
1976
The Mystery of the Gold Coins
1982
Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game
1996
The Tennis Trophy Mystery
2003
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1989
Young Cam Jansen and the Knock, Knock Mystery
2014
Cam Jansen Set
2025
Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery
2000
Metric Handbook
1997
How Tall, How Short, How Faraway?
1999
My Dog and the Knock Knock Mystery
1985
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
1998
Young Cam Jansen and the New Girl Mystery
2004
Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery
1998
The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
1980
It's Time to Sleep, It's Time to Dream
2009
Bones and the Clown Mix-Up Mystery
2010
Andy and Tamika
1999
The Many Troubles of Andy Russell
1998
The Valentine Baby Mystery
2005
A Picture Book of Harry Houdini
2009
Swim, Mo, Swim!
2020
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
1994
A Picture Book of Sacagawea
2000
The First Day of School Mystery
2002
Roman Numerals
1977
Enemies of Slavery
2004
A Picture Book of Sitting Bull
1993
A Hero and the Holocaust
The Story of Janusz Korczak and His Children
2002
Money Math
Addition and Subtraction
2017
The Story of Hanukkah
2011
The Wedding Cake Mystery
2010
A Picture Book of Patrick Henry
1995
Millions, Billions, & Trillions
Understanding Big Numbers
2013
You Can, Toucan, Math
Word Problem-Solving Fun
2006
