From: Norma Jean <nsawicki>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:03:41 -0500

I do not wish to take the subject off track but Anne Lundin's remarks are off the mark. While Anne Carroll Moore and others of her ilk made enormous contributions to the development of library services to children, " children's librarianship" hardly qualifies as an "author" of children's books. As with many visionaries, Anne Carroll Moore sometimes took herself too seriously, and used her considerable power in ways that were entirely inappropriate, and sometimes more than mean spirited...her serious attempt to prevent the publication of Stewart Little, and her subsequent snit when she failed, being only one example. Librarians of that day had considerable power over publishers because libraries had become an increasingly strong market. In some ways, it was about business, and power disguised as
"children's literature." To anyone interested in the relationship between children's librarians and children's book publishers, it was an interesting and exciting time with a wonderful and gifted cast of characters, mostly women, but like their intelligence and passion, their warts were also in full view. And please...there is only one author... the writer. Norma Jean
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