![]() White, author of “Charlotte’s Web” (1952), and Shel Silverstein, who penned the zany poems of “Where the Sidewalk Ends” (1974). ![]() It was also the first book in the “I Can Read!” series launched by Ursula Nordstrom, the influential Harper & Row children’s editor who cultivated Sendak as well as writers including E.B. Minarik wrote more than 40 children’s books during her five-decade career, none of them more widely read than her debut volume “Little Bear.” That book, released in 1957 with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, became the first in a line of her celebrated ursine tales. Her death, from congestive heart failure and complications from a heart attack, was confirmed by her sister, Anne Lester. Else Holmelund Minarik, a children’s writer whose simple yet elegant prose in the “Little Bear” picture-book series has helped generations of youngsters learn to read, died July 12 at her home in Sunset Beach, N.C. ![]()
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