Great photos!
TOD: A fave author of children's books (or, maybe, young adult, or 'tween, or something) was Edward Eager. He would take a group of young people, quite ordinary, and give them some magical thing, which in turn would send them on magical adventures.
I've always particularly liked his first four books, Half Magic, Knight's Castle, Magic By the Lake, and The Time Garden. (A neat twist: the heros and heroines of the second and fourth books are the children of the heroines and hero of the first and third books! Yes, they all tie together!)
While running through Steven Suskin's Opening Nights on Broadway, putting all his basic info into a database for I-haven't-decided-what-use-later, I ran across Eager's name a couple of times. Earlier in his career, he had been a lyricist for a couple of Broadway shows: Dream with Music (1944), which he wrote with composer Clay Warnick, and The Liar (1950), with composer John Mundy. For the latter, Eager co-wrote the book with Alfred Drake.
Eager may never have been a big Broadway name, but I'm glad to say his books for young readers are still in print!