15 November 2021
"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it," Graham Greene, WWII spy and author, wrote in The Quiet American, though he also surprisingly penned a series of delightful children's books The Little Train (1946); The Little Fire Engine (1950); The Little Horse Bus (1952); and The Little Steamroller (1953), all featuring anthropomorphic heroes. The books were a collaboration with his mistress, Dorothy Glover, a theater costume designer and the landlady of his London writing studio; a single name, Dorothy Craigie, appeared on the books, presumably a pseudonym for Glover who illustrated them.
