Talk:Louise Fatio

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Random House authors. I deleted this citation because I find no information about Louis Fatio at the linked URL --nor quickly at this RH site.

"Author Spotlight: Louise Fatio". Random House, Inc. Retrieved 3 March 2010.

Vital data. We need a better source than The Wee Web where NWDA (University of Oregon Libraries, i presume) is incomplete. The Wee Web says Fatio is "still with us", where NWDA says died 1993. The Wee Web says Louise emigrated in 1925, were NWDA says Roger was brought to the US in 1927 or later. Marriage date and place will help check that.

--P64 (talk) 18:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Publications. The Guide to Duvoisin & Fatio papers ref name=NWDA says that The Happy Lion (1954) was her first book. The Library of Congress evidently catalogs the first edition (NY: Whittlesey House, 1954).[1]

LC Online Catalog includes 21 records for Fatio, all books illustrated by Duvoisin. There are two with dates before 1954, The Christmas Forest [1950][2] and Anna, the Horse [1951][3]. Both give publisher Aladdin Books, a paperback imprint established in the 1960s and first used in 1967, we say.

None of the three LC call numbers (not shown here) appends a date to the classification.

Those early dates for The Christmas Forest and Anna, the Horse may be correct copyright dates for works published later, or correct publication dates for editions LC does not hold and has not seen (whence NWDA is wrong about her first book by any definition), or incorrect (representing clerical errors by Aladdin or LC).

For now the article spells out that The Christmas Forest is her earliest work in the LC catalog. But we should know more. --P64 (talk) 18:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]