ELEM: A Must Read: Dear Genius

[Johanna Halbeisen <johanna@MASSED.NET>]

I've just discovered a wonderful book for the summer, although it is
something of a busman's holiday.  _Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula
Nordstrom_  In case you don't recognize the name (I didn't right off),
Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys
and Girls from 1940 to 1977.  She was the editor for Crocket Johnson,
Clement Hurd, E.B. White, Ezra Jack Keets, Ruth Krauss, Louise Fitzhughes,
Margaret Wise Brown, and Maurice Sendak, just to name a few.  The
correspondence is especially wonderful if you know and love the books being
worked on.  A retired children's librarian showed it to me just now and
then took it home with her.  I'm off to my local independent bookstore to
buy it.


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Johanna Halbeisen
Woodland Elementary School (preK-4)
80 Powder Mill Rd.
Southwick, MA 01077
johanna@massed.net

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