Becky and Austin talk about books of the 1940s, including: Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstro m The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown In the Great Green Room by Amy Gary “Looking At Picture Books” substack by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/ Especially: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown The Little Island by Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) and Leonard Weisgard A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Lit Hub list: https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1940s/ Hiroshima by John Hersey https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume Gwendolyn Brooks