Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Book Tower, (1971).
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 233pp. Near fine with bumping at the corner and small oxidation mark (likely from a paperclip) on the front pastedown. A collection of short contemporary biographies of children's book authors and illustrators, including Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lenski, Dr. Suess, Maurice Sendak, Babette Deutsch, Roald Dahl, and Charlotte Zolotow, from whose library, although not marked as such, this book comes from. She was an editor and publisher at Harper’s celebrated children’s books department, as well as acclaimed author of over 65 children’s books. She is credited for her contributions to the Children’s Liberation Movement which believed the rights and emotional concerns of children be recognized and treated as the equal of adults.
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