Some Magazine

For this centennial-year entry, with its mini-theme of middle grade, the Horn Book editors put our heads together to brainstorm cover art. In the December 1952 issue of the Magazine, Horn Book editor Jennie D. Lindquist gave it a glowing review, praising White's beautiful writing along with the story's wisdom, its humor, the verisimilitude of farm life, and its indelible characters, both in the narrative and in Williams's art. Anne Carroll Moore-famously influential, highly opinionated New York Public librarian; practically one of the inventors of children's librarianship and with a rubber stamp reading: "Not Recommended for Purchase by Expert"-was a Horn Book contributor from the very beginning.