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Betty G. Birney Books in Order

Betty G. Birney has written 26 books, published between 1991 and 2024. The first book is Oh, Bother! No One's Listening (1991) and the newest is Happiness According to Humphrey (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
26
Published
1991–2024
Pages on record
1,554 in 10 of 26 books
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Betty G. Birney, born April 26, 1947, is an American author, screenwriter and teacher, best known for the Humphrey children's book series. The catalogue holds 26 books published between 1991 and 2024, from Oh, Bother! No One's Listening (1991) to Happiness According to Humphrey (2024). Disney Winnie-the-Pooh titles from the 1990s sit in the listing, and Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands is the one recorded series. Hamsters, schools, toys, teddy bears and friendship head the subject list.

Humphrey, the class pet at the center of Betty Birney's series, lives in Room 26 at Longfellow School, and a different student takes him home each weekend.

How many Betty G. Birney books are there?

Betty G. Birney has 26 books, released between 1991 and 2024. 7 of them belong to the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series.

Betty G. Birney Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 26 Betty G. Birney books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Oh, Bother! No One's Listening by Betty G. Birney, book 1 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  2. Cover of Oh, Bother! Someone's Fibbing! by Betty G. Birney, book 3 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  3. Cover of Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Half a Haycorn Pie by Betty G. Birney (1992)
  4. Cover of Oh, Bother! Someone's Messy! by Betty G. Birney, book 5 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  5. Cover of Oh Bother! Someone's Grumpy! by Betty G. Birney, book 6 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  6. Cover of The Merry Christmas Mystery by Betty G. Birney, book 5 of the Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh series (1993)
  7. Cover of Oh, Bother! Someone Won't Share by Betty G. Birney, book 7 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  8. Cover of I Am Winnie the Pooh by Betty G. Birney, book 6 of the Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh series (1994)
  9. Cover of Oh, Bother! Someone's Jealous! by Betty G. Birney, book 8 of the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series
  10. Cover of Oh, Bother! Someone's Afraid Of the Dark by Betty G. Birney (1994)
  11. Cover of Roo's messy room by Betty G. Birney, book 28 of the Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh series (1999)
  12. Cover of Trouble According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2008)
  13. Cover of Surprises According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2009)
  14. Cover of Summer According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2011)
  15. Cover of School Days According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2012)
  16. Cover of Mysteries According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2013)
  17. Cover of Secrets According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2015)
  18. Cover of Imagination According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2016)
  19. Cover of Happiness According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney (2024)
  1. 1
    Oh, Bother! No One's ListeningDisney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #11991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  2. 2
    Oh, Bother! Someone's Fibbing!Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #31991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  3. 3
    Winnie the Pooh and the Missing PotsDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #21992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  4. 4
    Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Half a Haycorn PieDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #31992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  5. 5
    Oh, Bother! Someone's Messy!Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #51992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  6. 6
    Oh Bother! Someone's Grumpy!Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #61992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  7. 7
    Walt Disneys Winnie the PoohDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #41993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  8. 8
    The Merry Christmas MysteryDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #51993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  9. 9
    Oh, Bother! Someone Won't ShareDisney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #71993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  10. 10
    I Am Winnie the PoohDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #61994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  11. 11
    Oh, Bother! Someone's Jealous!Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #81994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  12. 12
    Oh, Bother! Someone's Afraid Of the DarkDisney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands #91994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  13. 13
    Roo's messy roomDisney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh #281999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  14. 14
    The World According to Humphrey2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  15. 15
    Friendship According to Humphrey2006 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006176
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  16. 16
    Trouble According to Humphrey2008 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008192
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  17. 17
    Surprises According to Humphrey2009 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009152
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  18. 18
    Adventure According to Humphrey2010 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010144
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  19. 19
    Summer According to Humphrey2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  20. 20
    School Days According to Humphrey2012 · 157 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012157
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  21. 21
    Mysteries According to Humphrey2013 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013176
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  22. 22
    Winter According to Humphrey2013 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013152
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  23. 23
    Secrets According to Humphrey2015 · 135 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015135
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  24. 24
    Imagination According to Humphrey2016 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016120
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  25. 25
    Spring According to Humphrey2017 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017150
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  26. 26
    Happiness According to Humphrey2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Betty G. Birney series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Betty G. Birney books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh in order

6 books
  1. 2. Winnie the Pooh and the Missing Pots
  2. 3. Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Half a Haycorn Pie
  3. 4. Walt Disneys Winnie the Pooh
  4. 5. The Merry Christmas Mystery
  5. 6. I Am Winnie the Pooh
  6. 28. Roo's messy room

Standalone books

13 books

13 Betty G. Birney titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Betty G. Birney books in order?

You only need to read Betty G. Birney books in order within the Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands series, which holds 7 of the 26 Betty G. Birney books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Betty G. Birney

Start with Oh, Bother! No One's Listening (1991), the first Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Betty G. Birney book?

Happiness According to Humphrey (2024) is the newest Betty G. Birney book released so far.

Is there a new Betty G. Birney book coming?

No next Betty G. Birney book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Betty G. Birney at a glance

Still publishing
Betty G. Birney published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Betty G. Birney books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,554 pages across the 10 of 26 books with a recorded length, a median of 152 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Betty G. Birney books, 13 of 26, were published in the 1990s.

What the Betty G. Birney books are about

23 of the 26 Betty G. Birney books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 13 of 23. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.