The first that she is the mother of the boy, or is it a girl? And second because she reviews children’s books for The New Yorker or some other magazine. She begged him to get back to his children’s book. She was very, very keen to make the acquaintance of his wife: I’d like to include Mrs. She gave him writing tips: Let it flow, without criticizing it too close to its creation. She inquired after his family, asking, more than once, after his child. In early 1939, she pressed upon White no fewer than five letters. White “ who told her he had started a children’s book “but was finding it difficult.” Moore cultivated writers, Lepore notes, and was always eager to take credit for the next superstar of children’s lit. As Lepore writes: “In 1895, when she was twenty-four, she moved to New York, where she more or less invented the children’s library.” Moore designed children’s reading rooms filled with pansies and pint-sized chairs, invented “story hour,” and replaced signs of “Silence!” with framed prints by children’s book illustrators. Moore held enormous influence over children’s literature in American in the first half of the 20th century “ and with good reason. This week’s New Yorkerfeatures an article by Jill Lepore about a long and public spat between E.B White and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Work with Children at the New York Public Library.
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