I’ve got grandkids now, born decades after Jim Marshall’s untimely death, who adore reading his books. Lucky me, I’ve had a loose connection to Jim (James) Marshall (1942–1992) for decades. When I worked at Little, Brown, in Boston in the 1980s, he also lived in Boston. We published Cinderella, one of his fairy-tale retellings, and he was a warm and genial part of the local children’s book scene.