R Pulver

Robin Pulver is the talented author of many wonderfully humorous children's books including the well-known Mrs. Toggle series --Mrs. Toggle's Zipper, Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur, ("A fantastic story made completely believable." -Horn Book) and Mrs. Toggle's Beautiful Blue Shoe. Her other titles include Alicia's Tutu, Homer and the House Next Door, The Holiday Handwriting School, and the hilarious Nobody's Mother is in Second Grade. Fall of 1999 will see the publication of her newest book, Axle Annie, illustrated by Tedd Arnold. She lives with her family in Pittsford, New York.

Recently Robin told this story from childhood about her love of books:

"We had not a lot of books--in those years, the late 1940s and early 50s when I was a child being read to. There certainly wasn' t the abundance of children's books that exists now. But we had a love of books. We lived in a little house in the country--about 40 miles south of Rochester, NY. I was the second of five children. I remember being without indoor plumbing in that little house. If there had been children's book stores (and there were not), my parents didn' t have the money to buy books for us. So what they read to us in our pre-school years were not picture books, but the well-worn chapter books they'd loved and saved from their own childhoods. I still have those books. I can look at these books and remember my father telling me how his mother used to caress their covers before she opened them to read, and she would speak of how books are to be cherished.

"The books I remember most fondly from my childhood are a series of three relating the adventures of Twinkly Eyes, a black bear. They had no pictures, but the green cover, with the little black bear on it was dear to me. I was a compulsive gift-giver as a child, and used to wrap that old Twinkly Eyes book up in newspaper and present it to my father when he came home from work. Without fail, he would remove the wrapping and feign great surprise and delight. 'Twinkly Eyes! My favorite! Just what I wanted!' So I received an appreciation of the value of books and the pleasure of sharing them very early in life."

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