Margaret K. McElderry Books Turns 50.

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS The imprint celebrates a half century of "catching readers young" Margaret McElderry susan Cooper (l.) and Margaret McElderry In 1944, when transatlantic travel meant constant threat of torpedoes from German U-boats, librarian Margaret McElderry boarded a freighter in New York to take a job at the Office of War Intelligence in London. In its first half century, Margaret K. McElderry Books - now a boutique imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - has sold more than 80 million books. [Extracted from the article]

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