No doubt, some people purchase it only because they remember it from their childhood. First, its popularity is definitely out of proportion to its quality. I would like to respond in as quiet and understated a way as I can to your, admittedly very funny, assault on The Poky Little Puppy. This is the image that Leonard Marcus managed to find and publish in his book Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way (older book jacket for that book seen below). Let’s take a nice long gaze at the author of this book. Listen to the whole show here on Soundcloud or download it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, PlayerFM, or your preferred method of podcast selection. But is it actually any good? We consider The Poky Little Puppy on all his roly-poly glory. The illustrator’s wife once joked that the artist was pleased that he’d given the Bible a “run for its money”. Neither Kate nor I had ever read this book before, and yet it bragged back in 2001 of having sold nearly 15 million copies. The mystery of Janette Sebring Lowrey hangs over our latest episode of this podcast. It seems very odd to me that one of the most commercially successful children’s books to ever be published in the United States has an almost entirely obscure author to its name.
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