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On Wisconsin
For UW-Madison Alumna and Friends
Fall 2001.
Alumni News Sideline
Does the book title Mr. Pine's Purple House ring a bell, somewhere far back in your mind? If so, you may be interested in the endeavor that Jill Morgan '83 began last year. Morgan, of Keller, Texas, is the founder of Purple House Press (www.purplehousepress.com), a publishing company that reissues children's books that are long out of print, but well loved and sorely missed.
"The response has been overwhelming," writes Morgan. "We brought back three books last year, including my childhood favorite, [the 1965] Mr. Pine's Purple House, written by Leonard Kessler, the father of another UW alumna, Madisonian Kim Kessler '79, MS '86."
Morgan reports that Mr. Pine's Purple House - the reason that she got into publishing - shot up to the number fifteen bestseller slot at Amazon in July. In an e-mail to its customers, Amazon mentioned that the work was also the childhood favorite of its CEO, Jeff Bezos.
"This year," Morgan continues, "we're bringing back seven great books, all previously published between 1929 and 1965, and we've still got a long list of more to reprint! The response has been great from the baby boomers, who are glad to find affordable copies of these books to pass down to children and grandchildren."
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