From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:45:32 -0500 (EST)

I've known Janet for eons...back when she was doing promotion work at Macmillan.

Always a great fan of Langston Hughes, I begged everyone at Knopf to do a new edition of his THE DREAM KEEPER AND OTHER POEMS. The book, published in 1932, was sorely in need of new pictures. For years no one listened.

When Janet came aboard she listened. She contracted Brian Pinkney to do the artwork and invited me to do the Introduction as well as select 7 poems that did not appear in the original edition. Since l932, the book has never been out of print.

Janet did things like this. She was an incredible human being. Another icon gone.

Perhaps a course should be given to everyone new in the publishing world on Great Ladies of the Publishing World. There were so many. O! what they might learn.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

ORIGINAL WORKS

BEEN TO YESTERDAYS: POEMS OF A LIFE (BOYDS MILLS PRESS) *STARRED REVIEW/SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL CHRISTOPHER AWARD SCBWI GOLDEN KITE HONOR BOOK

CITY I LOVE (ABRAMS) *STARRED REVIEW / SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL *STARRED REVIEW / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2009/ CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

NEW COLLECTIONS:

AMAZING FACES (LEE & LOW) ILLUSTRATED BY CHRIS SOENTPIET *STARRED REVIEW / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TEXAS BLUEBONNET MASTER LIST - 2010

SHARING THE SEASONS (SIMON & SCHUSTER/MCELDERRY BOOKS) ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID DIAZ *STARRED REVIEW / KIRKUS *STARRED REVIEW/ BOOKLIST NY PUBLIC LIBARY BEST 100 TITLES NCTE NOTABLE POETRY BOOK FUSE #8 - MAGNIFICENT BOOKS
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