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20: 41:, an adult book club created in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzburg. Book clubs often marketed books to libraries as well, and by the 1950s the majority of the Junior Literary Guild's sales were to libraries. In 1988, the name was changed to the Junior Library Guild to reflect this change in the company's business. 80:
column from 1938 she wrote, "One of the stories I thought interesting about these books was the fact related by the postmaster in a mining town — that two miners' families had often gone without food, but had never cancelled their subscriptions to the Junior Literary Guild books".
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Selection of a children's book by the editors of the Junior Literary Guild (or latterly the Junior Library Guild) is a distinction used for publicity by publishers and authors of children's books. At present, 492 books are selected each year.
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served until 1962, Thérèse Doumenjou served until 1970, and Marjorie Jones served until 1994, which included the transition from the Junior Literary Guild to the Junior Library Guild. Susan Marston is the current editorial director.
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Its success either eliminated or absorbed most of the other children's clubs then in existence. Following the already established adult format, children joined as members and received membership pins and a monthly magazine,
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In 2004 the Junior Library Guild posted a webpage indicating four classics of children's literature that had been Junior Literary Guild selections. They were:
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was the first editor. He was followed by Helen Ferris, who served from August 1929 until 1960. Ferris was a close associate of
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Around the World with Historical Fiction and Folktales: Highly Recommended and Award-Winning Books, Grades K-8
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devoted to juvenile literature. It was created in 1929 as one of the enterprises of the
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of the Junior Literary Guild has been held by only a few individuals over the years.
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The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia
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The Junior Literary Guild published a monthly magazine,
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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book club
Literary Guild
Media Source Inc.
Plain City, Ohio
editor-in-chief
Carl Van Doren
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ann Durell
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg
All Aboard We Are Off
Free Baseball
The Horn Book Magazine
Library Journal
School Library Journal


The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia
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ISBN
978-0-313-33521-1

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