Margueritte Peterson received a BA in Children's Literature, and upon graduation made the trek from Florida to the California Bay Area to assist Vic Zoschak of Tavistock Books. She now enjoys blogging, developing catalogues, and managing social media outlets for several booksellers and independent shops around North America. Margueritte plays the piano, goes kitesurfing, and enjoys a close personal relationship with her Netflix account in her spare time. Her favorite books are The Secret Garden and Lolita. Don't psychoanalyze that.
08/06/2018
The Berenstain Bear were created by Jan and Stan Berenstain in 1962, and the series has since stretched to over 300 titles. Since 2002, Jan and Stan’s son Mike continues the tradition by authoring the titles. Let’s see how this family project all came about…
07/02/2018
ABAA-member Tavistock Books sponsors an annual scholarship to the Rare Book School. Meet this year's winner.
07/10/2020
When The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in June of 1948, Jackson was catapulted to fame - the likes of which she never expected. The initial response to the story was extremely negative. Jackson received 400 letters from readers over the course of the summer – and only 13 were kind (and mainly from personal friends).
06/29/2017
There have been many authors over the past century who have been considered forerunners in the art of the Modern Novel, but perhaps none more so than Virginia Woolf.
05/29/2018
Edward Stratemeyer was the brains -- and frequently the author -- behind many now-classic children's book series. But most people have never heard of him...
09/01/2016
Remembering Colette, the original "badass literary woman," according to Margueritte Peterson.
06/17/2016
Though Theodor Seuss Geisel never had children of his own (perhaps he was too busy teaching and entertaining everyone else’s children), he will forever be remembered as one of the Great Fathers of Children’s Literature!
07/25/2016
Humans have not lost the yen to travel and experience, so why has travel writing fallen a bit away from its original intent?
07/24/2017
Douglas Adams may be best remembered for his humorous saga The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a “trilogy” of five books which sold over 15 million copies during the author’s lifetime, but he was much more than a simple humorist...
06/08/2016
Charles Dickens' final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has long fascinated fans, as the murder mystery was unfinished at his death and Dickens never (formally) named the murderer. On this the 145th anniversary of the author’s death, we look at his last years and his final work.
06/17/2015
Illustrator Randolph Caldecott was the inspiration for a 1937 National Book Award for creativity and imagination in Children's Illustration. The medal has been presented every year since, and it is high time that we all know the story behind the man who influenced a century of illustration.
05/26/2015
“Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function…” A consideration of Marguerite Duras and the minimal novel.
