For Beginners is a 20-book series with 20 primary works first released in 1984 with contributions by Denise Dennis, Zoran Josipovic, Judith Blackstone, Robert J. Cavalier, Richard Osborne, Lydia Alix Fillingham, Saundra Pearl Sharp, Ron David, Moshe Susser, Eric LeMay, P. Gordon, Jennifer A. Pitts, Sam E. Anderson, David Cogswell, Philip Hill, Donald D. Palmer, Marcos Mayer, Jeff Becan, James N. Powell, and Steven L. Manly.