Beautiful Christmas Tree

Legendary in the field of children's literature, as an editor as well as the author of more than seventy picture books, Charlotte Zolotow has a unique understanding of both childhood and children.Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children.She has been published by more than 20 different houses (many of which she has outlasted). She was an editor, and later publisher, at Harper & Row, which was called Harper & Brothers when she began to work there and is now known as HarperCollins.Among the many writers she edited are Paul Fleischman, Paul Zindel, Mary Rodgers, Robert Lipsyte, and Francesca Lia Block.She is the mother of the writer Crescent Dragonwagon and poker tournament champion Stephen Zolotow. She was formerly married to the late Maurice Zolotow. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.Zolotow, Charlotte is the author of 'Beautiful Christmas Tree' with ISBN 9780618152452 and ISBN 0618152458.