Gertrude Crampton is the author of many children's books including "Tootle "and "Scuffy the Tugboat "of the Little Golden Books Series. Janette Sebring Lowrey lived in Texas and wrote young adult novels in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as a few other Little Golden Books. Kathryn Jackson wrote dozens of Golden Books, among them "Nurse Nancy "and "The Animals Merry Christmas," Byron Jackson co-authored Little Golden Book's "Pirate Ships and Sailors" with Kathryn Jackson.