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    Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom Leonard S. Marcus Legendary children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom (1910-1988) headed Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973. Credited with such timeless classics as Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947), E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web (1951), Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are (1963), and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree (1964), she is often considered the single most influential champion of innovation in children’s book publishing in the past century, whose vision reined in a new era of imagination of literature for little ones. Her collected letters are full of insights on and epitomes of integrity, intuition, and creative vision that far transcend the world of children’s publishing.

    Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

    Leonard S. Marcus

    Legendary children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom (1910-1988) headed Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973. Credited with such timeless classics as Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947), E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web (1951), Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are (1963), and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree (1964), she is often considered the single most influential champion of innovation in children’s book publishing in the past century, whose vision reined in a new era of imagination of literature for little ones. Her collected letters are full of insights on and epitomes of integrity, intuition, and creative vision that far transcend the world of children’s publishing.

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