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55 million books mailed to children 4.4 million books placed in homes of more than 739,000 families with children in grades K-3 470,000 children being served ages birth through third grade
Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from Little, Brown, to reprint Thornton Burgess's many children's books, and began issuing the Bedtime Stories series (20 books originally published 1913–1919, including such titles as The Adventures of Reddy Fox and The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel) in 1949. The original Little, Brown editions ...
The International Children's Digital Library was initially launched in November 2002 under the direction of University of Maryland Computer Science professor Dr. Allison Druin and in collaboration with researchers from other fields, such as information studies, art, psychology, and education, in order to better understand children's online habits and to encourage a love of reading and ...
The preface for 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is by children's illustrator and author Quentin Blake and introduction by Julia Eccleshare. [2] There is an index of titles, arranged alphabetically, and an index by author/illustrator, arranged alphabetically too, but by author/illustrator, not by title of book.
Books illustrated by Kay regularly appeared in catalogs and review publications. An article published in The Literary Digest magazine on December 7, 1918, titled "The Year's Best Twenty-Five Holiday Books for Children" included a glowing review of Kay's original children's book The Fairy Who Believed in Human Beings .
Dr. Robert Mead Quackenbush, MSW, PhD (July 23, 1929 – May 17, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more by 1999. [ 2 ] He is noted for creating the characters Henry the Duck, Detective Mole, and Miss Mallard.