Books of the 1940s

Becky and Austin talk about books of the 1940s, including:

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstro m

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

In the Great Green Room by Amy Gary

“Looking At Picture Books” substack by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/

Especially: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown

The Little Island by Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) and Leonard Weisgard

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Lit Hub list: https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1940s/

Hiroshima by John Hersey

https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima

Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume

Gwendolyn Brooks