Charlotte Zolotow
(1915 - 2013)
Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children (HarperCollins puts her number of “books for young audiences” at over seventy).
She has been published by more than 20 different houses (many of which she has outlasted). She was an editor, and later publisher, at Harper & Row, which was called Harper & Brothers when she began to work there and is now known as HarperCollins.
Among the many writers she edited are Paul Fleischman, Paul Zindel, Mary Rodgers, Robert Lipsyte, and Francesca Lia Block.
Bibliography
Best in Children’s Books Volume 20 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Brothers Grimm
Jean de Brunhoff
Marjorie Flack
Charlotte Zolotow
Et al
Paul Galdone
Robin Jacques
Richard Scarry
Et al
Do You Know What I’ll Do? (1958)
A little girl tells her baby brother what she will do to make him happy.
Read online at archive.org.
I Like to Be Little (1987)
A little girl who likes being little.
Read online at archive.org.
It’s Not Fair (1976)
Did you ever want to have what your friend had and be what she was? And then find out that she wanted to be like you and have what you had?
May I Visit? (1976)
A young girl wonders about visiting her mother after she is grown up.
Read online at archive.org.
My Grandson Lew (1974)
Lew remembers his grandfather who came to stay when his parents were away.
Over and Over (1957)
A little girl learns about the changing seasons of the year, and on her birthday, wishes for them to happen all over again.
Read online at archive.org.
The Park Book (1944)
A description of a day at the park for a boy who lives in a meadow.
Seasons (2001)
A collection of original poems on the seasons.
Read online at archive.org.
The Sky Was Blue (1963)
Her mother tells a little girl that life has been much the same for many generations.
Read online at archive.org.
Someone New (1978)
A young boy realizes he is growing up.
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The Unfriendly Book (1974)
Bertha and Judy are best friends. Or are they?
When I Have a Little Boy (1988)
When John has a son, he won’t have to take piano lessons.
When I Have a Little Girl (1965)
When I have a little girl, all the rules will be different.
Read online at archive.org.
When I Have a Little Girl; When I Have a Little Boy (2000)
A flip book that is really two books in one. A boy and a girl imagine what it will be like to have children of their own. The original illustrations have been colored for this edition.
When I Have a Son (1967)
When John has a son, he won’t have to take piano lessons.
William’s Doll (1972)
William’s father gives him a train set, but only his grandmother understands why he wants a doll.
Read online at archve.org.