How I Got to Greenwillow Books: Sylvie
How did I get to Greenwillow? Mon Dieu, it was sooo long ago! I actually thought I was going to stay for a year or two at the most . . . but it’s been 18 years (this past May). Insane! It does not feel like it.
My first job in publishing was at Dutton Children’s [...]
How I Came to Children’s Books
(And Brought a Dieffenbachia with Me)
By Phyllis Larkin
Many years ago, about a year after I came to New York in 1955, I went to work at the Book Review of the now-defunct newspaper The New York Herald Tribune. The job was demanding, varied, and fun. It was while I was there that I became interested in children’s books, and before [...]
The Magical Diana Wynne Jones
by Peter Glassman
Diana Wynne Jones = Magic. To me, that is as basic as 1+1=2. There are few authors who can as easily transport me to worlds of wonder and mystery as Diana Wynne Jones.
It was in 1978 that a friend who worked at The Science Fiction Shop in New York City (now, alas, long [...]
A Very Sad Story
This champagne bottle has been with Greenwillow Books since 1975. It made the trip from 105 Madison Avenue to 1350 Avenue of the Americas and then to our new home at 10 East 53rd Street. It was originally opened to toast the publication of Greenwillow’s first book, Because of the Sand Witches There, by Mary [...]
