The men declined, but Stein already had a manuscript and happily submitted it. It was published by Young Scott Books, after one of their new authors, Margaret Wise Brown (maybe you’ve heard of her), reached out to Stein, as well as Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, asking them to write children’s books. This book is exactly the children’s book I would expect Gertrude Stein to write: obscure and poignant and strange and delightful. Then there's Gertrude Stein's The World is Round (1938): Unsurprisingly, this one is an adorable ode to girls and their hair: These include the above Happy to be Nappy, and also Homemade Love, Grump Groan Growl, and others. You may know her as a legendary author, feminist thinker, and social activist, but bell hooks also wrote a number of board books (yes, board books, the cutest kind of books!) for small children. "In fact, quite a number of established literary writers have dabbled in kids lit," writes Temple. Emily Temple lines up little-known children's books by well-known writers, in the spirit of James Baldwin's Little Man, Little Man, which is being reissued this week.
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