Good Books for Bad Children : The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom
Good Books for Bad Children : The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom
Click to enlarge
Author(s): Kephart, Beth
ISBN No.: 9780593379585
Pages: 48
Year: 202309
Format: Library Binding
Price: $ 30.35
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

In this lively, lyrical picture book biography, meet the groundbreaking, outspoken, legendary editor of the best loved books for children, and see how she inspired Maurice Sendak Margaret Wise Brown, Shel Silverstein and others to create Where the Wild Things Are, Good Night Moon, and many more classics. "Ursula Nordstrom was a grown-up who never forgot what it was to be a child." The girl who'd always loved to read would grow up to work in the Department of Books for Boys and Girls at Harper & Brothers Publishers. Soon she was editing books by Margaret Wise Brown and E.B. White, discovering new talent like John Steptoe and Maurice Sendak, re-inventing what a book for children should be . "Children want to be seen," she'd tell her writers. "Not good enough for you," she'd scribble in the margins of their manuscripts, asking them to revise.


Her favorite books of all? "Good books for bad children," she'd say. And those books went on to win every award imagineable, including the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, and the National Book Award.


To be able to view the table of contents for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...
To be able to view the full description for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...