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Pinborough, Jan

Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children

40 pp. | Houghton | March, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-547-47105-1 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Debby Atwell. This easygoing picture-book biography gives us a simple narrative of Anne Carroll Moore's Maine childhood and early love of books on through to her career at the New York Public Library. With sun-dappled acrylic paintings of, first, rural Maine and, later, triumphantly, the light-filled interiors of NYPL's new Children’s Room, the tone here is one of uncomplicated optimism, reflecting Moore's practical idealism. Bib.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2013