― Ursula Nordstrom
Julie and Eve talk to children’s book expert Leonard Marcus about what it’s like to edit iconic authors. Among other questions, they ask, How do you tell E. B. White you had a problem with Charlotte?
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
“The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.” ― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, by Leonard S Marcus
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
HarperCollins Children’s Division
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown
Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Freaky Friday, by Mary Rodgers
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Stinky Cheese Man, by Jon Scieszka
Katharine White (née Sergeant Angell)
Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
Bedtime for Frances (originally titled Who’s Afraid), by Russell Hoban
Danny and the Dinosaur, by Syd Hoff
The Long Secret, by Louise Fitzhugh
In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by John Donovan