On The Biblio File: a conversation about Ursula Nordstrom with Nigel Beale

Book world guru Nigel Beale talks with Leonard about Ursula Nordstrom, twentieth-century America’s great visionary publisher of books from children and teens.  Leonard discusses Nordstrom’s extraordinary knack for recognizing and nurturing talent in artists and writers at the very start of their careers, for helping even the most accomplished creators surpass themselves, for daring to push beyond the genre’s outmoded taboos, and for navigating the treacherous waters of a hidebound male-dominated profession as an ambitious and brilliant maverick woman. Who exactly did Nordstrom publish? E.B. White, Margaret Wise Brown, Maurice Sendak, Crockett Johnson, Ruth Krauss, Louise Fitzhugh, Shel Silverstein, and Tomi Ungerer to name just a few!