{"id":4087,"date":"2015-06-10T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/tian_cai_men_20150610-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:16:32","slug":"tian_cai_men_20150610-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2015\/06\/10\/tian_cai_men_20150610-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pref\u00adace to \u201cSto\u00adries of Genius\u00ades\u201d (Ten\u00adta\u00adtive Draft)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea for this book first arose when I was trans\u00adlat\u00ading *Dear Genius: The Let\u00adters of Ursu\u00adla Nord\u00adstrom*. After two and a half years, it was final\u00adly com\u00adplet\u00aded through the col\u00adlec\u00adtive efforts of many. Using the char\u00adac\u00adters from *Dear Genius* as a thread, this book tells their life sto\u00adries one by one, in chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal order of their birth dates. And when these sto\u00adries are strung togeth\u00ader, a stun\u00adning pic\u00adture emerges: a vast cross-sec\u00adtion of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s book land\u00adscape for about half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry after the 1930s! Although incom\u00adplete, it is enough to offer a glimpse into its essence.<\/p>\n

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A long scroll made of let\u00adters<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cDear Genius\u201d is a col\u00adlec\u00adtion of let\u00adters from Ursu\u00adla, a bril\u00adliant edi\u00adtor in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s book indus\u00adtry, to her authors, illus\u00adtra\u00adtors, crit\u00adics, and read\u00aders. It com\u00adpris\u00ades near\u00adly 300 let\u00adters select\u00aded from over 100,000 let\u00adters writ\u00adten dur\u00ading her near\u00adly half-cen\u00adtu\u00adry-long career. Many of the authors and illus\u00adtra\u00adtors are renowned fig\u00adures in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan (and even inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal) chil\u00addren\u2019s book world, many of whom are grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly becom\u00ading famil\u00adiar to Chi\u00adnese read\u00aders and have count\u00adless fans in Chi\u00adna. Many of the works dis\u00adcussed in those let\u00adters have grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly become clas\u00adsics of world chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture. Read\u00aders who love chil\u00addren and chil\u00addren\u2019s books often yearn to under\u00adstand the sto\u00adries behind these won\u00adder\u00adful books, while chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture enthu\u00adsi\u00adasts and researchers hope to clar\u00adi\u00adfy the con\u00adtext by under\u00adstand\u00ading the cre\u00adators and their back\u00adgrounds. Ursu\u00adla\u2019s col\u00adlec\u00adtion of let\u00adters is indeed a rare and invalu\u00adable source of first\u00adhand infor\u00adma\u00adtion.
\nHow\u00adev\u00ader, sim\u00adply read\u00ading that col\u00adlec\u00adtion of let\u00adters can be con\u00adfus\u00ading: if one is unfa\u00admil\u00adiar with the recip\u00adi\u00adents, under\u00adstand\u00ading the con\u00adtent will be dif\u00adfi\u00adcult; and due to copy\u00adright and oth\u00ader rea\u00adsons, the col\u00adlec\u00adtion only con\u00adtains one-sided cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence, mak\u00ading it chal\u00adleng\u00ading to ful\u00adly com\u00adpre\u00adhend the top\u00adics dis\u00adcussed. There\u00adfore, these let\u00adters may ini\u00adtial\u00adly appear as scat\u00adtered frag\u00adments. But with enough patience, arrang\u00ading these \u201cfrag\u00adments\u201d in a cer\u00adtain order, search\u00ading for more rel\u00ade\u00advant infor\u00adma\u00adtion to trans\u00adform them into clear\u00adly defined, fleshed-out char\u00adac\u00adters and sto\u00adries, and employ\u00ading a bit of detec\u00adtive work to uncov\u00ader the con\u00adnec\u00adtions between them, grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, a rather com\u00adplete scroll emerges before our eyes. Ursu\u00adla is pre\u00adcise\u00adly the scroll itself.<\/p>\n

Ear\u00adly child\u00adhood read\u00ading pro\u00admo\u00adtion cam\u00adpaigns in the Unit\u00aded States<\/b><\/p>\n

To ful\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adate this long scroll, a gen\u00ader\u00adal under\u00adstand\u00ading of the progress of chil\u00addren\u2019s read\u00ading pro\u00admo\u00adtion in the Unit\u00aded States in the ear\u00adly 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry is nec\u00ades\u00adsary. Today, the Unit\u00aded States is clear\u00adly a super\u00adpow\u00ader in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books, but in the ear\u00adly 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, it was mere\u00adly a fol\u00adlow\u00ader of Europe (espe\u00adcial\u00adly Britain), and pira\u00adcy was ram\u00adpant. Beat\u00adrix Pot\u00adter\u2019s *Peter Rab\u00adbit*, hailed as the \u201cfound\u00ading work of mod\u00adern pic\u00adture books,\u201d was pub\u00adlished in Britain in 1902, and pirat\u00aded copies appeared in the Unit\u00aded States just two years lat\u00ader! How\u00adev\u00ader, in this ris\u00ading super\u00adpow\u00ader, a move\u00adment was flour\u00adish\u00ading, and it was this move\u00adment that great\u00adly pro\u00adpelled the devel\u00adop\u00adment of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s books, grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly ele\u00advat\u00ading them to the top of the world. This was the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Chil\u00addren\u2019s Library Move\u00adment, or, in mod\u00adern terms, the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s read\u00ading pro\u00admo\u00adtion move\u00adment.
\nThis book intro\u00adduces the move\u00adment while recount\u00ading the sto\u00adry of the leg\u00adendary chil\u00addren\u2019s librar\u00adi\u00adan Vir\u00adginia Hav\u00adi\u00adland. Hav\u00adi\u00adland can be con\u00adsid\u00adered a third-gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion pro\u00admot\u00ader, while Anne Car\u00adole Moore, the head of the chil\u00addren\u2019s book depart\u00adment at the New York Pub\u00adlic Library, and Alice Jor\u00addan, Hav\u00adi\u00adland\u2019s men\u00adtor at the Boston Pub\u00adlic Library, can be seen as sec\u00adond-gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion stan\u00addard-bear\u00aders. Because of this move\u00adment, the Unit\u00aded States began estab\u00adlish\u00ading ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded chil\u00addren\u2019s read\u00ading rooms in pub\u00adlic libraries in the ear\u00adly 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. Librar\u00adi\u00adans and enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic mem\u00adbers of the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty fre\u00adquent\u00adly read chil\u00addren\u2019s books aloud as a pri\u00adma\u00adry means of pro\u00admot\u00ading read\u00ading. At least by 1902, the Boston Pub\u00adlic Library had ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded sto\u00adry\u00adtellers for chil\u00addren. Lat\u00ader, Miss Pot\u00adter expressed great envy in a let\u00adter to Ms. Moore, as Britain was still quite con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive in this regard at the time.
\nIt was pre\u00adcise\u00adly because this pro\u00admo\u00adtion became increas\u00ading\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar that the demand for chil\u00addren\u2019s books (espe\u00adcial\u00adly trendy chil\u00addren\u2019s books) grew, lead\u00ading major pub\u00adlish\u00ading hous\u00ades to estab\u00adlish ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded chil\u00addren\u2019s book depart\u00adments. In 1919, the world\u2019s first chil\u00addren\u2019s book edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal depart\u00adment was estab\u00adlished at Macmil\u00adlan Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Com\u00adpa\u00adny, with its found\u00ading edi\u00adtor, Louise Beck\u00adett, only 25 years old and a few years after grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading from the pres\u00adti\u00adgious Vas\u00adsar Col\u00adlege. Sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly, Dou\u00adble\u00adday, Vir\u00adgin, Harp\u00ader, and oth\u00ader com\u00adpa\u00adnies also estab\u00adlished chil\u00addren\u2019s book depart\u00adments. Also in 1919, Ms. Moore, Mr. Matthews of the Boy Scouts of Amer\u00adi\u00adca, and Mr. Melch\u00ader, edi\u00adtor of Pub\u00adlish\u00aders Week\u00adly, joint\u00adly launched the first Chil\u00addren\u2019s Book Week event; a few years lat\u00ader, also at Melcher\u2019s ini\u00adtia\u00adtive and spon\u00adsor\u00adship, the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Library Asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion\u2019s Chil\u00addren\u2019s Library Divi\u00adsion estab\u00adlished the New\u00adbery Medal, and in 1922, 212 librar\u00adi\u00adan rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives vot\u00aded to select the first win\u00adner, *The Sto\u00adry of Mankind*. With this con\u00adtin\u00adued impe\u00adtus, in 1928, \u201cThe Mil\u00adlion Cats,\u201d cre\u00adat\u00aded by Wan\u00adda Geiger, a native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan artist, was pub\u00adlished. This work made chil\u00addren\u2019s librar\u00adi\u00adans, rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded by Moore, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly proud, because it can be said to be the first orig\u00adi\u00adnal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pic\u00adture book of world-class quality\u2014the soil that had been cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded for a long time final\u00adly bore fruit.<\/p>\n

Green\u00adwich Vil\u00adlage<\/b><\/p>\n

Ursu\u00adla arrived in the ear\u00adly 1930s. Ini\u00adtial\u00adly, she was a shy clerk in the col\u00adlege text\u00adbook depart\u00adment of Harper\u2019s Books. A few years lat\u00ader, when she moved to the chil\u00addren\u2019s book depart\u00adment, she quick\u00adly adapt\u00aded to her role and even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly became a land\u00admark edi\u00adtor in the his\u00adto\u00adry of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s book pub\u00adlish\u00ading. In those ear\u00adly years, she pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly lived in Green\u00adwich Vil\u00adlage.
\nGreen\u00adwich Vil\u00adlage in Low\u00ader Man\u00adhat\u00adtan, New York, is a place name men\u00adtioned in many sto\u00adries in this book. We will see: William Pene de Bois and Kara Kuskin grow\u00ading up in this area; Ezra Jack Keats\u2019 father work\u00ading as a wait\u00ader in a caf\u00e9 here, lying to young Keats that he had trad\u00aded soup for paint from a down-on-his-luck artist; Mar\u00adco Simon and Robert McCloskey rais\u00ading ducks in the bath\u00adtub of their shared apart\u00adment here, which lat\u00ader became mod\u00adels for \u201cMake Way for Duck\u00adlings\u201d; Mar\u00adgaret Wise Brown study\u00ading ear\u00adly child\u00adhood edu\u00adca\u00adtion here and becom\u00ading a writer, and she also bought a detached house here as a stu\u00addio, where she com\u00adplet\u00aded clas\u00adsic pic\u00adture books such as \u201cThe Run\u00adaway Bun\u00adny\u201d and \u201cGood\u00adnight Moon\u201d; Mar\u00adgaret and Ursu\u00adla often met at a cor\u00adner caf\u00e9 at break\u00adfast time. It was a place where peo\u00adple would talk busi\u00adness; Clement Hurd, Leonard Weis\u00adgard, Mau\u00adrice Sendak, and Tom\u00admy Unger all lived in this area. Sendak and Unger had sim\u00adi\u00adlar sched\u00adules and often met to chat dur\u00ading meal\u00adtimes; H.A. Ray and his wife Mar\u00adgaret Ray lived here before mov\u00ading to Boston. See\u00ading Ursu\u00adla liv\u00ading alone and feel\u00ading lone\u00adly, Mrs. Ray even brought her a small dog to care for her. Mr. Ray observed astron\u00ado\u00admy from the rooftop of a six-sto\u00adry apart\u00adment build\u00ading here and com\u00adplet\u00aded his book, *Stars: A New Way of Observ\u00ading the Night*; E.B. White and Kather\u00adine White also lived here in their New York apart\u00adment, and Char\u00adlotte Zolo\u00adtov and her hus\u00adband rent\u00aded a place here ear\u00adly in their mar\u00adriage\u2026 It was once a gath\u00ader\u00ading place for writ\u00aders, artists, and var\u00adi\u00adous rad\u00adi\u00adcals and alter\u00adna\u00adtive indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals (includ\u00ading homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adals). Even today, although it has trans\u00adformed from a cheap apart\u00adment area into an upscale res\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial area with high land prices, many peo\u00adple in the arts still pre\u00adfer to live there.
\nLook\u00ading back at Green\u00adwich Vil\u00adlage before the 1970s, it feels like a tru\u00adly sym\u00adbol\u00adic vil\u00adlage (even though it\u2019s actu\u00adal\u00adly made up of con\u00adcrete and steel blocks). Every\u00adone in the vil\u00adlage seemed to know each oth\u00ader and had har\u00admo\u00adnious rela\u00adtion\u00adships, yet they were all keen to do their own thing, espe\u00adcial\u00adly enjoy\u00ading being uncon\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal. Many land\u00admark works in the his\u00adto\u00adry of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture were con\u00adceived or nur\u00adtured there.<\/p>\n

From Bank Street to Fifth Avenue<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Bank Street in Green\u00adwich Vil\u00adlage, actu\u00adal\u00adly a small street nes\u00adtled between West 11th and West 12th Streets, named after a New York bank that once stood there. But what tru\u00adly made this street world-famous was the Bank Street Edu\u00adca\u00adtion Insti\u00adtute, an exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal ear\u00adly child\u00adhood edu\u00adca\u00adtion insti\u00adtu\u00adtion found\u00aded there.
\nFifth Avenue is a major north-south thor\u00adough\u00adfare in Man\u00adhat\u00adtan, New York, and is always asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with ulti\u00admate lux\u00adu\u00adry, as many of the world\u2019s most pres\u00adti\u00adgious lux\u00adu\u00adry bou\u00adtiques are locat\u00aded there. How\u00adev\u00ader, sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, in the heart of this prime loca\u00adtion, there are also two libraries\u2014the New York Pub\u00adlic Library\u2019s main branch and its Man\u00adhat\u00adtan branch.
\nThe dis\u00adtance from the for\u00admer site of the Bank Street Teach\u00aders Col\u00adlege to the New York Pub\u00adlic Library is about 3 kilo\u00adme\u00adters, a mere 40-minute walk, which is quite close for a metrop\u00ado\u00adlis like New York. How\u00adev\u00ader, in the first half of the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, they sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly became almost mor\u00adtal ene\u00admies in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books.
\nThe stan\u00addard-bear\u00ader of the Bank Street Acad\u00ade\u00admy of Edu\u00adca\u00adtion was its founder, Lucy Michelle, who was also Mar\u00adgaret Wise Brown\u2019s men\u00adtor. She found\u00aded the acad\u00ade\u00admy and an exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal kinder\u00adgarten at the same time. Lat\u00ader, she encour\u00adaged a par\u00adent of a kinder\u00adgarten child to found Scott Com\u00adpa\u00adny, which main\u00adly pub\u00adlished works by mem\u00adbers of the \u201cHere and Now\u201d cre\u00adative exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal group. Mar\u00adgaret was the found\u00ading edi\u00adtor and lead\u00ading writer.
\nThe stan\u00addard-bear\u00ader of the library camp was Ms. Moore, men\u00adtioned ear\u00adli\u00ader. She played a cru\u00adcial role in pro\u00admot\u00ading chil\u00addren\u2019s read\u00ading, but in terms of read\u00ading taste, she pre\u00adferred tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal clas\u00adsics and fairy tales with the ele\u00adgant style of the Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan era. She dis\u00adliked real\u00adis\u00adtic works and works that devi\u00adat\u00aded from tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal tech\u00adniques, and she was also averse to incor\u00adpo\u00adrat\u00ading mod\u00adern art into chil\u00addren\u2019s books. She was extreme\u00adly opposed to the \u201chere and now\u201d cre\u00adative con\u00adcept advo\u00adcat\u00aded by Michelle Oba\u00adma, which empha\u00adsized con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary life expe\u00adri\u00adences, and nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly dis\u00adliked Mar\u00adgaret. In her lat\u00ader years, Ms. Moore became even more nar\u00adrow-mind\u00aded, dis\u00adlik\u00ading both the \u201cLit\u00adtle House\u201d series and \u201cChar\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web.\u201d Because of Moore\u2019s sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant influ\u00adence in the chil\u00addren\u2019s library com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, works she dis\u00adliked often missed out on major awards and were even exclud\u00aded from pub\u00adlic library rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded read\u00ading lists, thus great\u00adly affect\u00ading the pro\u00admo\u00adtion and sales of her works.
\nAlthough Mar\u00adgaret was Michelle Oba\u00adma\u2019s most prized stu\u00addent and assis\u00adtant, her unique poet\u00adic tem\u00adpera\u00adment and lit\u00ader\u00adary sen\u00adsi\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty allowed her to sur\u00adpass (and to some extent \u201cbetray\u201d) her men\u00adtor. Her most suc\u00adcess\u00adful works, while embody\u00ading the \u201chere and now\u201d con\u00adcept, also ful\u00adly retained poet\u00adic fan\u00adta\u00adsy and fairy\u00adtale charm. Ursu\u00adla, born in the same year as her, was actu\u00adal\u00adly three months old\u00ader than Mar\u00adgaret, but she great\u00adly admired her and was deeply influ\u00adenced by her in chil\u00addren\u2019s book cre\u00adation and edit\u00ading. They also shared a love for mod\u00adern art that empha\u00adsized free expres\u00adsion, nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly attract\u00ading artists like Hart and Weis\u00adgard to their side. Although Mar\u00adgaret trag\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly passed away pre\u00adma\u00adture\u00adly, the influ\u00adence of the exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal cre\u00adative group at the Bank Street Teach\u00aders Col\u00adlege con\u00adtin\u00adued to fer\u00adment and grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly expand. Her suc\u00adces\u00adsor, Ruth Krause, joined forces with her hus\u00adband, Kroger John\u00adson, a left-wing artist, and with the help of the fledg\u00adling Mau\u00adrice Sendak, to cre\u00adate a series of inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive works that were quite sub\u00adver\u00adsive for that era.
\nFor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, the chil\u00addren\u2019s library and chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture crit\u00adi\u00adcism com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly opened up. We saw influ\u00aden\u00adtial crit\u00adics such as Lindqvist, edi\u00adtor of *Horn Book* mag\u00ada\u00adzine; Hav\u00adil\u00adland, a promi\u00adnent fig\u00adure in chil\u00addren\u2019s libraries; Gina Suther\u00adland, edi\u00adtor of *Chil\u00addren\u2019s Book Cen\u00adter Newslet\u00adter*; and George Woods, edi\u00adtor of the chil\u00addren\u2019s sec\u00adtion of *The New York Times Book Review*, all sid\u00ading with the reformist camp rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded by Ursu\u00adla and oth\u00aders. More and more chil\u00addren\u2019s librar\u00adi\u00adans re-exam\u00adined their pre\u00advi\u00adous judg\u00adments and grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly revised them in var\u00adi\u00adous ways. Although they were unable to award any of the books in the \u201cLit\u00adtle House\u201d series a major prize, they even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly estab\u00adlished a new life\u00adtime achieve\u00adment award for their creators\u2014the Roland Ingalls Wilder Award, which was lat\u00ader award\u00aded to E.B. White, author of *Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web*. In 1964, they even award\u00aded the Calde\u00adcott Medal to *Where the Wild Things Are*, which was quite con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial upon its release. Even Sendak lat\u00ader said, \u201cThat was per\u00adhaps the most sur\u00adpris\u00ading event of my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the cur\u00adtain of his\u00adto\u00adry<\/b><\/p>\n

The 61 indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals fea\u00adtured in this book are cul\u00adtur\u00adal elites active in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren\u2019s book world after the 1930s, all of whom are heavy\u00adweight fig\u00adures in terms of their achieve\u00adments and sta\u00adtus. Let\u2019s take a look at their com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion through some data.<\/p>\n

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\nOf these, 34 were women, a slight major\u00adi\u00adty. Con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading that chil\u00addren\u2019s book edi\u00adtors (such as Ursu\u00adla and Susan Hirschman) and chil\u00addren\u2019s librar\u00adi\u00adans at that time were all women, the gen\u00adder ratio among chil\u00addren\u2019s book cre\u00adators was rough\u00adly 50\u201350. In terms of birth\u00adplace, over 20% of the cre\u00adators were born in Europe, a char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic of the Unit\u00aded States as a nation of immi\u00adgrants. In terms of eth\u00adnic\u00adi\u00adty, Jew\u00adish peo\u00adple made up over a quar\u00adter of the cre\u00adators. What explains this?<\/span>
\nLet\u2019s try plac\u00ading these genius\u00ades of chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture with\u00adin the broad\u00ader con\u00adtext of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry.
\nStart\u00ading with Roland Ingalls Wilder, her upbring\u00ading was shaped by the west\u00adward expan\u00adsion of the Unit\u00aded States in the mid-to-late 19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. Janet Sper\u00adber Lowry and Fred Gib\u00adson also expe\u00adri\u00adenced sim\u00adi\u00adlar pio\u00adneer\u00ading fam\u00adi\u00adly life. How\u00adev\u00ader, you might notice that Wilder\u2019s \u201cLit\u00adtle House\u201d series was pub\u00adlished after 1932, dur\u00ading the most dif\u00adfi\u00adcult years of the Great Depres\u00adsion. It is pre\u00adcise\u00adly at this time that such sto\u00adries res\u00adonat\u00aded so wide\u00adly.
\nFrom the mid-19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry to the ear\u00adly 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, the Unit\u00aded States expe\u00adri\u00adenced sev\u00ader\u00adal large-scale waves of immi\u00adgra\u00adtion, with Euro\u00adpean Jews being the most promi\u00adnent. Among the immi\u00adgrants were rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly wealthy Ger\u00adman and Aus\u00adtri\u00adan Jews, such as the ances\u00adtors of Ruth Krauss and Mary Rogers, but many more were impov\u00ader\u00adished Jews from East\u00adern Europe and Rus\u00adsia, such as the fathers of Ezra Jack Git\u00adzo, Mau\u00adrice Sendak, Nat Hentoff, and Shel Sil\u00adver\u00adstein. These impov\u00ader\u00adished Jews pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly clus\u00adtered in the slums of Low\u00ader Man\u00adhat\u00adtan and Brook\u00adlyn, lat\u00ader dis\u00adpers\u00ading to cities like Boston and Chica\u00adgo. The two World Wars, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly fought in Europe, fur\u00adther drove a large num\u00adber of Euro\u00adpean cul\u00adtur\u00adal elites to the Unit\u00aded States. Isaac Singer, H.A. Ray and Mar\u00adgaret Ray, Maya Woj\u00adciochs\u00adka, and Leo Lion\u00adni, among oth\u00aders, essen\u00adtial\u00adly fled to Amer\u00adi\u00adca. After the war, Tom\u00admy Unger\u00ader, Eric Car\u00adle, Ani\u00adta Lobel, and oth\u00aders, who had suf\u00adfered great\u00adly from the con\u00adflict, immi\u00adgrat\u00aded to the Unit\u00aded States. The two world wars and the Great Depres\u00adsion that occurred in between, while hav\u00ading a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant eco\u00adnom\u00adic impact on the Unit\u00aded States, actu\u00adal\u00adly pro\u00advid\u00aded this immi\u00adgrant nation with excel\u00adlent devel\u00adop\u00adment oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties, even in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books.
\nIn the ear\u00adly Cold War fol\u00adlow\u00ading World War II, the polit\u00adi\u00adcal atmos\u00adphere in the Unit\u00aded States was extreme\u00adly tense, with McCarthy\u00adism ram\u00adpant. Many left-wing writ\u00aders were per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded, unable to pub\u00adlish their works or teach normally\u2014in oth\u00ader words, their liveli\u00adhoods were almost cut off. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, cen\u00adsor\u00adship in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books was not so strict, and there were also chil\u00addren\u2019s book edi\u00adtors like Ursu\u00adla who yearned for free\u00addom and were fear\u00adless. This attract\u00aded a group of left-wing writ\u00aders, such as John\u00adson Krogert and Mil\u00adli\u00adcent E. Sel\u00adsum, to show\u00adcase their tal\u00adents in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books. We can prob\u00ada\u00adbly owe a debt of grat\u00adi\u00adtude, in part, to the peri\u00adod of McCarthy\u00adism that allowed us to have such a bril\u00adliant chil\u00addren\u2019s book as *Arrow Has a Col\u00adored Pen\u00adcil*.
\nMov\u00ading into the 1960s, we entered one of the most event\u00adful peri\u00adods in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry: the Civ\u00adil Rights Move\u00adment, the Viet\u00adnam War and the anti-war move\u00adment, the assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtions of Pres\u00adi\u00addent Kennedy and Mar\u00adtin Luther King Jr., the wom\u00aden\u2019s rights move\u00adment, the sex\u00adu\u00adal lib\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion move\u00adment, and vio\u00adlent clash\u00ades between homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adals and police\u2026 Inter\u00adest\u00ading\u00adly, many land\u00admark works in the world of chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture were also born dur\u00ading this era. For exam\u00adple, the first pic\u00adture book fea\u00adtur\u00ading a Black child as the pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist, *Snowy Day*, won the 1963 Calde\u00adcott Medal; in 1969, John Step\u00adtoe, a Black artist not yet 19 years old, pub\u00adlished his acclaimed debut pic\u00adture book, *Steve*; and in the same year, the first young adult nov\u00adel to address homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, *The Way We Were*, was also pub\u00adlished.
\nThis is no acci\u00addent. When we place the tra\u00adjec\u00adto\u00adries of these genius\u00ades before the back\u00addrop of his\u00adto\u00adry, every\u00adthing seems nat\u00adur\u00adal.<\/p>\n

Mav\u00ader\u00adick genius\u00ades<\/b><\/p>\n

How\u00adev\u00ader, while it is said that heroes are made by the times\u2014some spe\u00adcial fig\u00adures always emerge in a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar era\u2014why are these the spe\u00adcif\u00adic peo\u00adple who emerge? There must be some mys\u00adtery behind it.
\nIn this book, we\u2019ve com\u00adpiled a resume for each genius, imag\u00adin\u00ading them apply\u00ading for jobs. We envi\u00adsioned these resumes as boast\u00ading envi\u00adable expe\u00adri\u00adences, but in real\u00adi\u00adty, most resumes, judg\u00ading sole\u00adly from fam\u00adi\u00adly back\u00adground, edu\u00adca\u00adtion, and work expe\u00adri\u00adence, are quite unre\u00admark\u00adable. In the job mar\u00adket, they\u2019d like\u00adly be just can\u00addi\u00addates for office clerks or graph\u00adic design\u00aders. For exam\u00adple, H.A. Ray dropped out of col\u00adlege, and his main work expe\u00adri\u00adence was sell\u00ading bath\u00adtubs; San\u00addak only had a high school diplo\u00adma, attend\u00aded a few nights of art school, and his main work expe\u00adri\u00adence was win\u00addow dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00ading a toy store; Sil\u00adver\u00adstein also strug\u00adgled in col\u00adlege, drew comics dur\u00ading his mil\u00adi\u00adtary ser\u00advice, and after his dis\u00adcharge, worked as a hot dog stand own\u00ader; E.B. White, despite attend\u00ading the pres\u00adti\u00adgious Cor\u00adnell Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, changed jobs at least five times in four years after grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, either resign\u00ading or being fired\u2026 In short, before reach\u00ading their peak, most of these indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals lived ordi\u00adnary, aim\u00adless lives, some even strug\u00adgling to make ends meet for near\u00adly half their lives. Yet, they all ulti\u00admate\u00adly sur\u00adpassed them\u00adselves. What\u2019s the secret?
\nUrsu\u00adla revealed a bit of the secret in a let\u00adter she wrote to Sendak on Jan\u00adu\u00adary 31, 1963. She wrote, \u201cYou don\u2019t belong to the \u2018dif\u00adfi\u00adcult genius\u2019 type. First of all, genius\u00ades are nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult\u2026\u201d This state\u00adment, com\u00ading from Ursu\u00adla who dealt with these kinds of peo\u00adple every day, seems quite rea\u00adson\u00adable. How\u00adev\u00ader, in the eyes of anoth\u00ader bril\u00adliant edi\u00adtor, Susan Hirschman, only Ursu\u00adla tru\u00adly deserved the title of genius, because Ursu\u00adla her\u00adself was dif\u00adfi\u00adcult enough. Back then, it was Ursu\u00adla who fired Susan from Harp\u00ader! This \u201cdif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty\u201d was actu\u00adal\u00adly a state of being uncon\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal, which to out\u00adsiders seemed sim\u00adply to be doing things her own way, even to the point of being obses\u00adsive.
\nDon\u2019t be fooled by the fact that these \u201cgenius\u00ades\u201d are top fig\u00adures in the chil\u00addren\u2019s book world, and their works are so cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for so many chil\u00addren world\u00adwide. Almost every one of them has some \u201cquirks,\u201d and often, the greater their achieve\u00adments, the more pro\u00adnounced these quirks become. Of course, \u201cquirks\u201d here sim\u00adply refers to their unique\u00adness. Some of these quirks are per\u00adfect\u00adly healthy from any per\u00adspec\u00adtive. For exam\u00adple, Romain Rol\u00adland, a pio\u00adneer\u00ading farmer, always wrote dili\u00adgent\u00adly in his spare time\u2014a writ\u00ading habit that can be con\u00adsid\u00adered a virtue. M.E. Ker\u00adr\u2019s pen name pref\u00ader\u00adence, orig\u00adi\u00adnat\u00ading from neces\u00adsi\u00adty, grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly became a cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded sto\u00adry. How\u00adev\u00ader, once these quirks delve deep\u00ader, even chal\u00adleng\u00ading the entrenched eth\u00adi\u00adcal val\u00adues of soci\u00adety, they often become embroiled in con\u00adflict and con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy. This is pre\u00adcise\u00adly what makes the sto\u00adries of these genius\u00ades so intrigu\u00ading; land\u00admark works often emerge from con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy, and when they ulti\u00admate\u00adly over\u00adcome it, they become even more pow\u00ader\u00adful.
\nIn the words of the rest\u00adless Eva Gal\u00adlian: \u201cThose who are born gen\u00adtle, calm, and free from trou\u00adble, who are always able to stay away from vio\u00adlent emo\u00adtions and evil temptations\u2014those who nev\u00ader have to fight along\u00adside angels at night and win with a limp at dawn\u2014can nev\u00ader become great saints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growth in var\u00adi\u00adous forms<\/b><\/p>\n

Every par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpant in com\u00adpil\u00ading the infor\u00adma\u00adtion and writ\u00ading the sto\u00adries of these genius\u00ades in this book is a par\u00adent of one of the chil\u00addren. We could\u00adn\u2019t help but want to explore their growth path in the hope of learn\u00ading some\u00adthing from them.
\nIn sum\u00adma\u00adry, the paths to suc\u00adcess for these genius\u00ades are incred\u00adi\u00adbly diverse. Some came from very wealthy fam\u00adi\u00adlies, but genius\u00ades raised in priv\u00adi\u00adleged cir\u00adcum\u00adstances often seem more prone to rebel\u00adlion, such as Clement Hurd and Mary Rogers. Oth\u00aders came from impov\u00ader\u00adished back\u00adgrounds, but this fos\u00adtered resilience, like Ezra Jack Kitz. Gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly speak\u00ading, how\u00adev\u00ader, most of these genius\u00ades came from fam\u00adi\u00adlies with mod\u00adest eco\u00adnom\u00adic cir\u00adcum\u00adstances. Wealth\u00adi\u00ader fam\u00adi\u00adlies tend\u00aded to have a stronger artis\u00adtic atmos\u00adphere, while those less afflu\u00adent seemed to have clos\u00ader fam\u00adi\u00adly bonds. We often see that in less afflu\u00adent fam\u00adi\u00adlies, the bonds between sib\u00adlings are often deep\u00ader. Par\u00adents may be pre\u00adoc\u00adcu\u00adpied with mak\u00ading a liv\u00ading, but the influ\u00adence between the chil\u00addren is immea\u00adsur\u00adable. In the devel\u00adop\u00adment of Singer, Syd, White, Gib\u00adson, Dejoun, and Kitz, the influ\u00adence and sup\u00adport from their sib\u00adlings played a cru\u00adcial role.<\/p>\n

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\nAs men\u00adtioned above, their edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal back\u00adground reveals that only 60% of this group com\u00adplet\u00aded col\u00adlege, 20% attend\u00aded col\u00adlege but did not grad\u00adu\u00adate, and anoth\u00ader 20% either com\u00adplet\u00aded high school or had unknown edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal back\u00adgrounds. Of those who grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded, only sev\u00aden went on to obtain a mas\u00adter\u2019s degree or a dual degree. Of these, only one was male: Mr. Dono\u00advan, who com\u00adplet\u00aded his Mas\u00adter of Laws, but he lat\u00ader changed careers. Near\u00adly 60% of these grad\u00adu\u00adates were women, per\u00adhaps because, in their era, women seek\u00ading to make a liv\u00ading were more reliant on a col\u00adlege degree. How\u00adev\u00ader, for the vast major\u00adi\u00adty of these indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals, the majors they stud\u00adied in col\u00adlege often dif\u00adfered sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly from the suc\u00adcess\u00adful careers they ulti\u00admate\u00adly pur\u00adsued. Their career suc\u00adcess is large\u00adly due to inter\u00adests and habits cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded from child\u00adhood, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly draw\u00ading and read\u00ading in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s books. If there was one com\u00admon thread grow\u00ading up, it was read\u00ading. Regard\u00adless of their fam\u00adi\u00adly back\u00adgrounds, they all shared a pas\u00adsion for read\u00ading from a young age. Those who have a pen\u00adchant for art often devel\u00adop a habit of con\u00adstant\u00adly paint\u00ading from a young age. For exam\u00adple, HA Lei, who trav\u00adeled to the Ama\u00adzon Basin in Brazil to sell bath\u00adtubs, sketched mon\u00adkeys along the way. It would be strange if such peo\u00adple did\u00adn\u2019t become painters.<\/span>
\nAnoth\u00ader point worth not\u00ading is that these genius\u00ades in the field of chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, regard\u00adless of whether their child\u00adhoods can be inter\u00adpret\u00aded as hap\u00adpy, are cer\u00adtain\u00adly mem\u00ado\u00adrable. Child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries are an inex\u00adhaustible source of wealth for their cre\u00adations. More\u00adover, even in the least remark\u00adable child\u00adhoods, they were always sur\u00adround\u00aded by peo\u00adple who deeply loved and cared for them, offer\u00ading encour\u00adage\u00adment and sup\u00adport. The pow\u00ader of love is more ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial to growth than abun\u00addant mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal con\u00addi\u00adtions. And the most envi\u00adable child\u00adhoods are often those very close to nature\u2014on the grass\u00adlands, on farms, in the moun\u00adtains, by rivers, lakes, and seas\u2014whether set\u00adtled down or on extend\u00aded vaca\u00adtions. Such envi\u00adron\u00adments, cou\u00adpled with good edu\u00adca\u00adtion and warm fam\u00adi\u00adly affec\u00adtion, are how genius\u00ades like Roland Ingalls Wilder and E.B. White were nur\u00adtured.<\/p>\n

Suc\u00adcess and hap\u00adpi\u00adness<\/b><\/p>\n

When dis\u00adcussing lit\u00ader\u00adary his\u00adto\u00adry, peo\u00adple usu\u00adal\u00adly only ask about the val\u00adue of the works, the authors\u2019 con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtions, and their place in lit\u00ader\u00adary his\u00adto\u00adry. Almost no one asks: Were those authors hap\u00adpy? Does read\u00ading their works bring hap\u00adpi\u00adness to read\u00aders? \u2014 Such ques\u00adtions seem to have no his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal val\u00adue, or per\u00adhaps are unan\u00adswer\u00adable. How\u00adev\u00ader, when we talk about chil\u00addren\u2019s books, these ques\u00adtions seem very valu\u00adable: Was the author of *Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web* hap\u00adpy? Does read\u00ading *Char\u00adlot\u00adte\u2019s Web* bring hap\u00adpi\u00adness to read\u00aders (main\u00adly chil\u00addren)? \u2014 If you love chil\u00addren and cher\u00adish child\u00adhood, how could you not care about such ques\u00adtions?
\nIn com\u00adpil\u00ading the sto\u00adries of these genius\u00ades, we paid spe\u00adcial atten\u00adtion to this ques\u00adtion. While it\u2019s impos\u00adsi\u00adble to inter\u00adview each of them, let alone ask ques\u00adtions like \u201cAre you hap\u00adpy?\u201d, by read\u00ading their auto\u00adbi\u00adogra\u00adphies, biogra\u00adphies, and inter\u00adviews, access\u00ading rel\u00ade\u00advant audio\u00advi\u00adsu\u00adal mate\u00adri\u00adals, and observ\u00ading their actions, I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that, as a cre\u00adative group, suc\u00adcess\u00adful chil\u00addren\u2019s book cre\u00adators are per\u00adhaps the hap\u00adpi\u00adest group among all lit\u00ader\u00adary cre\u00adators. Per\u00adhaps there are one or two excep\u00adtions, but almost all chil\u00addren\u2019s book cre\u00adators are very sat\u00adis\u00adfied with their read\u00aders. They may leave behind quite intense con\u00adflicts in their sto\u00adries, reveal\u00ading the poten\u00adtial\u00adly dark\u00ader side of human nature, but almost all of them ulti\u00admate\u00adly make a fairy\u00adtale-like promise: they lived hap\u00adpi\u00adly ever after\u2026 And those par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly sin\u00adcere genius\u00ades don\u2019t see this promise as a con\u00adve\u00adnient decep\u00adtion, but rather gen\u00aduine\u00adly seek solu\u00adtions, com\u00adfort\u00ading young read\u00aders while also heal\u00ading their own past trau\u00admas. Just as Hayao Kawai dis\u00adcov\u00adered in *The Uni\u00adverse of Chil\u00addren*, child\u00adhood pos\u00adsess\u00ades a pow\u00ader\u00adful force that not only helps chil\u00addren but also great\u00adly ben\u00ade\u00adfits adults.
\nMau\u00adrice Sendak was per\u00adhaps one of the most pro\u00adfound genius\u00ades to dis\u00adcov\u00ader this secret, and his entire cre\u00adative life seemed to be a form of heal\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for the deep trau\u00adma he him\u00adself suf\u00adfered from fear dur\u00ading his child\u00adhood. Approach\u00ading 80, his part\u00adner of over half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry was about to pass away. He stayed by her side in the hos\u00adpi\u00adtal, while he him\u00adself fell ill on his own bed; the lone\u00adli\u00adness, help\u00adless\u00adness, and grief he felt were unimag\u00adin\u00adable to oth\u00aders. It was dur\u00ading this time that he con\u00adceived a new pic\u00adture book. After his part\u00adner\u2019s pass\u00ading, he con\u00adtin\u00adued to immerse him\u00adself in his work, final\u00adly pub\u00adlish\u00ading \u201cAdi the Pig\u201d at the age of 83 (the year before his death). This is per\u00adhaps the most light\u00adheart\u00aded and cheer\u00adful pic\u00adture book Sendak cre\u00adat\u00aded in his life\u00adtime. Although born into a very ortho\u00addox Jew\u00adish fam\u00adi\u00adly, Sendak was not reli\u00adgious. He said he great\u00adly envied those who were reli\u00adgious, because liv\u00ading in this world with\u00adout faith is des\u00adtined to be much more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult. How\u00adev\u00ader, he ulti\u00admate\u00adly per\u00adse\u00advered, com\u00adplet\u00ading a very ful\u00adfill\u00ading and almost regret\u00adless life, prob\u00ada\u00adbly because he found his own way of praying\u2014creating chil\u00addren\u2019s books for chil\u00addren, and for him\u00adself.
\nThose genius\u00ades who cre\u00adate chil\u00addren\u2019s books must expe\u00adri\u00adence an inde\u00adscrib\u00adable hap\u00adpi\u00adness when their suc\u00adcess is built on a per\u00adfect con\u00adnec\u00adtion with child\u00adhood.
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