Becky and Austin talk about books of the 1940s, including:
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstro m
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
In the Great Green Room by Amy Gary
“Looking At Picture Books” substack by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/
Especially: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown
The Little Island by Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) and Leonard Weisgard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Lit Hub list: https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1940s/
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume
Gwendolyn Brooks
