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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.

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I'm writing this to say that we may not be able to write you as promptly as I'd like to about your new manuscript. We'll read it quickly; THAT won't take any time. What takes time is thinking about it.

Ursula Nordstrom, 1957. Dear Genius, The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.

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She is the librarian who told me years ago not to worry about what this librarian and that librarian thought, that her advice to me was to go ahead and do the books I liked and believed in.

Ursula Nordstrom. Dear Genius

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I never want to forget that if Lewis Carroll had asked me whether or not he should bother writing about a little girl named Alice who fell asleep and dreamed that she had a lot of adventures down a rabbit hole, it would not have sounded awfully tempting to any editor.

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