Education and literacy promoter Nancy Larrick died November 14 of pneumonia. She was 93.
Larrick, who earned a master's degree in education from Columbia University and a doctorate in education from NYU, was an editor for children's magazines in the 1940s, a children's book editor at Random House in the 1950s and became a freelance writer in the 1960s. She edited 20 anthologies of poetry for children and wrote dozens of articles for education journals. She also wrote A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading in 1958, which had a long life on bookstore shelves, as well as two sequels and several other books on education and reading.
Larrick was also a founder and past president of the International Reading Association, which has more than 80,000 members in 99 countries.
