Kaye Webb
Children's publishing
Extract from typescript draft of an article by Kate Webb on the changing face of children's publishing, around 1979.
From the Kaye Webb Collection at Seven Stories, reference KW/07/04/08/19 f.2. Reproduced with permission of the Kaye Webb estate.
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It is not the Editors or authors who are responsible for this. It is Success - perhaps more specifically, the success of Children's Paperbacks, but after all, the lifeline of these is the Hardback world, so we might as well talk in general terms.
Once upon a time, in my early years, the Children's Publishing Division was an honourable minority group, left unquestioned to discover and encourage those writers who genuinely wished to write books for children ...
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