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