Charlotte Zolotow, 1915-2013.

From the NYT:

Writing in The Horn Book, a journal of children’s literature, in 1985, Ms. Zolotow offered a brief for honesty in books for children about even the most difficult subjects.

“We are all the same,” she wrote, “except that adults have found ways to buffer themselves against the full-blown intensity of a child’s emotions.”

She added, “We are not different from the children we were — only more experienced, better able to disguise our feelings from others, if not ourselves.”

What with the death of Barbara Park a few days back, this is shaping up to be a sad month for childrens' literature.