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Leonard asks why some children's books are too good to be forgotten in this occasional series of conversations with authors, illustrators, and another book people;

Ursula Nordstrom, Harper’s visionary publisher of “good books for bad children,” is now the subject of a comics tribute by illustrator Joana Avillez. It appeared on the back [...]

     Most everyone has fallen under the magnetic spell of the American illustrator Garth Williams (1912-1996) at one time or another: as childhood readers, as parents or grandparents, or as [...]