Children’s Books

Robin’s Robot – Author Mary D. Gauthier

ByCatherine Read February 2, 2022August 15, 2022

(Feb 2, 2022) Catherine Read talks with children’s book author, Mary D. Gauthier. This long-time resident of Fairfax City was inspired to write a children’s book about the robots that roamed the streets of the historic downtown of this small city making food deliveries. Mary is a former kindergarten teacher who retired from a long…

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Caldecott & Company – Maurice Sendak

ByCatherine Read July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

(July 2019) I love this book so much! I was led to it from a footnote in Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordsrom which was published in 1998. Maurice Sendak dedicated Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books & Pictures to his beloved editor Ursula Nordstrom, who died in 1988, the year this book was…

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Dear Genius – The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

ByCatherine Read June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

(June 2019) It took so long to finish this book, but I love every minute I spent with it. It was too heavy to lug around in my travels, so it was my “at home” book for months. These letters written by the iconic children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom are so rich in every conceivable…

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