Editing Western Publishing (section)

===Children's books===
[[File:Uncledonbiglittlebook.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Uncle Don's Strange Adventures'', a 1936 [[Big Little Book series|Big Little Book]], featured a story about radio host [[Uncle Don]] and his adventures with a mystery cruiser.]]
Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Western published a wide range of children's books (puzzle books, coloring books, Tell-a-Tale books, [[Big Little Books]]), mostly under the Golden Books and Whitman Publishing brand names. The [[Little Golden Books]] was a very popular series. Lucille Ogle helped develop the format for these low-priced books, which told simple stories and were among the first children's books with full-color illustrations. The first was published in 1942.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 22, 1988 |title=Lucille Ogle, 84, Dies; Creator of Book Series |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD91F3FF931A15751C1A96E948260 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707112044/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/22/obituaries/lucille-ogle-84-dies-creator-of-book-series.html |archive-date=July 7, 2015 |access-date=September 29, 2013 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Beginning as the "Whitman Famous Classics", and later renamed the "Golden Press" imprint, Western published a series of (public domain) classics, such as ''[[Little Women]],'' ''[[Little Men]],'' ''[[Black Beauty]]'' and ''[[Heidi]]''.

In the late 1960s, Golden Books were bound in the Goldencraft reinforced library bindings and sold to schools and libraries in the United States by a group of independent sales representatives. The library bound books were very popular with the schools and libraries.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}} Offices were set up in Wayne, New Jersey, and the reinforced library books were warehoused in Wayne and distributed from that location. There were about 80 sales representatives in the United States under the general manager, Roy Spahr.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}