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Mary Quintard Govan Steele (May 8, 1922 – July 6, 1992) was an American author and naturalist. She wrote more than twenty books, mainly for children. One of them, Journey Outside, was a Newbery Honor Book.
Millions of Cats is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Wanda Gág in 1928. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 1929, one of the few picture books to do so. Millions of Cats is the oldest American picture book still in print. [1] It entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [2]
The Great Illustrated Classics book series offers easy-to-read adaptations of well known literary classics, featuring large print and illustrations on every other page. The series is targeted at children. There are currently 66 titles. [1] [2] The series is owned, published, and sold by Waldman Publishing Corporation under the Baronet Books ...
Gage Educational is descended from W. J. Gage & Company, Ltd., a Toronto publisher renamed in 1879 for its partner William James Gage (1849–1921); formerly Adam Miller and Company. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Gage was a well-known Canadian publishing company.
"The Widow and the Parrot" is a children's story by Virginia Woolf composed in 1922 or 1923 for a family newspaper. [1] The story follows Mrs. Gage, an elderly widow, as she goes to collect an inheritance left to her by her miserly brother, Mr. Joseph Brand. In addition to a small cottage and £3,000, Mrs. Gage also inherits a parrot named ...
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Beginner Books is the Random House imprint for young children ages 3–9, co-founded by Phyllis Cerf with Ted Geisel, more often known as Dr. Seuss, and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel. Their first book was Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (1957), whose title character appears in the brand's logo.
A Wimmelbilderbuch (German, literally "teeming picture book"), wimmelbook, or hidden picture book is a type of large-format, wordless picture book. It is characterized by full-spread drawings (sometimes across gatefold pages) depicting scenes richly detailed with humans, animals, and objects. [1] Typically made for children, the drawings are ...