Anne Carroll Moore: A Sharp Eyed Critic

In her zeal to protect kids from the horrors of poverty and urban life, Moore almost invariably favored magical once upon a time stories that felt pastoral and twee. The whole point was for them to take the less fortunate into their warm, bougie embrace. But even as Anne Carroll Moore held the publishing world in her iron grip, a small group of preschool teachers were busy writing children's books that embodied everything she hated.