IRMA E. WEBBER Books



Grandma authored six children's books—five about plants—published by William R. Scott, Inc. between 1943 and 1952.  Several of these were translated into in a number of languages; for example Up Above & Down Below appeared in Bengali, Persian and Japanese and possibly others.  Even in English, different editions have different subtitles; thus Travelers All is subtitled "How Plants Go Places," "The Story of How Seeds Travel" and "How Plants Move Around").  In a 1962 letter editor John R. McCullough wrote to Grandma, "Italy appears to have no trillium and Italy wishes to publish Anywhere in the World omitting pages 26 and 27 which talks about wood flowers and leaf cover with reference to the trillium."  Of the books, It Looks Like This achieved the widest distribution as it was later picked up by the International Society for General Semantics and published in various languages and editions.  Useful insights on these books and the inspiration for them:
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