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Jane Werner Watson, the prolific author of many Little Golden Books, wrote under several pseudonyms including Elsa Jane Werner, Jane Werner, Annie North Bedford, Monica Hill, Elsa Ruth Nast, W.K. Jasner, and A.N. Bedford. She also wrote under the full name Elsa Jane Werner Watson. - AI Overview
Jane Werner Watson, born Elsa Jane Werner (July 11, 1915 – 2004) was an American children's author. She was one of the original editors of the Little Golden Books series,[5] which were published by Western Publishing in conjunction with Simon and Schuster. She went on to write approximately 150 books in the Little Golden Books series.
Some Little Golden Book Titles Included:
- Noah's Ark (1943) illustrated by Tibor Gergely
- The Golden Book of Poetry (1947)
- The Little Golden Book of Hymns (1947) illustrated by Corinne Malvern
- The Fuzzy Duckling (1949) illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
- Walt Disney's Cinderella (1950)
- Frosty the Snow Man (1950) illustrated by Corinne Malvern
- Albert's Zoo: A Stencil Book (1951)
- The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies: With Assorted Pixies, Mermaids, Brownies, Witches and Leprechauns (1951)
- Mickey Mouse and His Spaceship (1952)
- Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1952)
- The Christmas Story (1952) illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
- The Golden Geography: a child's introduction to the world (1952) illustrated by Cornelius DeWitt
- Animal Friends (1953) illustrated by Garth Williams
- Walt Disney's Cinderella and Other Stories (1953) with Steffi Fletcher
- Walt Disney's Pinocchio and Other Stories (1953) with Steffi Fletcher
- The Golden Book of Stories from the New Testament (1953) illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
- Walt Disney's Living Desert (1954)
- The Golden Mother Goose (1954) illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
- The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies: With Assorted Pixies, Mermaids, Brownies, Witches and Leprechauns (1954) illustrated by Garth Williams
- The Golden Book of Bible Stories from the Old Testament (1954) illustrated by Feodor Rojanovsky
- Land Nearest the Stars: A Journey by Taxi Across Australia (1955) as Monica Hill
- Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie (1955)
- The True Story of Smokey the Bear (1955) illustrated by Feodor Rojanovsky
- The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Heroic Story of the Trojan War, the Fabulous Adventures of Odysseus (1956) illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
- My Little Golden Book About God (1956) illustrated by Eloise Wilkin
- The World We Live In (1956) adapted from the original version by Lincoln Barnett
- Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1957)
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She was even named Woman of the Year for Literature by the Los Angeles Times in December 1958. She also wrote a children’s version of the Old and New Testaments and a series of books on 10 countries, illustrated with her own photography and by artists from the respective countries.
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