Expert on Children's Literature Dies.

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  • Author(s): Bradley, Ann
  • Source:
    Education Week. 12/1/2004, Vol. 24 Issue 14, p4-4. 1/8p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      LARRICK, Nancy; BEST sellers; POETRY publishing; BOOKS & reading; PUBLISHING; ARTS & children; INTERNATIONAL Reading Association
    • Abstract:
      This article reports that Nancy Larrick, a nationally known expert on children's literature who helped to found the International Reading Association, died on November 14 in Winchester, Virginia. She was 93 and had pneumonia. Larrick was the author of "A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading," which became a best seller when it was published in 1958, in addition to more than a dozen anthologies of poetry for children. In 1956, she helped found the reading association from a merger of two organizations, and she served as its second president.