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Kitty-in-Boots

by Lolly Robinson
Nov 30, 0002 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
Have you heard about the "newly-discovered" Beatrix Potter story that's about to be published?

Well, in fact it has been around for a while. Way back in [?1942? get date], Mrs. Heelis (call her Beatrix Potter at your peril!) sent several unpublished manuscripts to Bertha Mahony, the Horn Book's founder. Bertha chose one and published it under the Horn Book's imprint in 1944. Beatrix saw it through the editing stage but died just before it was published.

Lolly Robinson

Lolly Robinson is a freelance designer and consultant with degrees in studio art and children’s literature. She is the former creative director for The Horn Book, Inc., and has taught children’s literature at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She has served on the Caldecott and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award committees and blogged for Calling Caldecott and Lolly's Classroom on this site.

 

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