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Asked pointedly by Anne Carroll Moore, the New York Public Library's powerful superintendent of work with children, what qualified her [U. Nordstrom], a nonlibrarian, nonteacher, nonparent, and noncollege graduate to publish children's books, Nordstrom just as pointedly replied, 'Well, I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing.'

En Dear Genius, The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom. Collected and edited by Leonard S. Marcus.