On March 9, 1960, Alice M. Jordan died peacefully in her sleep. She had just written, “I have had a good winter without colds or other ills. I am going strong in my ninetieth year.” Thus a quiet, beloved, and widely influential woman passed out of life in the fullness...

Ever since the September-October issue of The Horn Book for 1939, Alice Jordan has edited the Booklist regularly. Her editorship marked a real advance in the value of the magazine, for her judgment of books has always been based upon her close association with children and their books. Moreover her notes have...