Podcast Interview With Leonard Marcus, Children’s Books Historian and Critic and Author of Many Biographies of Children’s Book Creators I highly recommend you purchase Dear Genius by Leonard Marcus. It’s a fabulous book of letters written by Ursula Nordstrom. I’m rereading it again just now. It’s fascinating to find out the behind the scenes of…
Read moreLecture – The 75th Anniversary of Poky Little Puppy and Little Golden Books
Little Golden Books launched in October 1942. Initially, there were 12 books in a series. The first books had 42 pages and they were printed on a mass scale to keep the costs as low as possible in order to allow most people to buy them at 25p-50p when average books were about $2. So…
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