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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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