Becky and Austin talk about books of the 1940s, including:  Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstro m  The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett  Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown  The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown  In the Great Green Room by Amy Gary  “Looking At Picture Books” substack by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/  Especially: https://lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/goodnight-moon  The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton  The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown  The Little Island by Golden MacDonald (Margaret Wise Brown) and Leonard Weisgard  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  Lit Hub list: https://lithub.com/a-century-of-reading-the-10-books-that-defined-the-1940s/  Hiroshima by John Hersey  https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima  Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume  Gwendolyn Brooks