In an article titled "Do millions of cats equal millions of radicals?" in John Hopkins University Press' Reviews in American History (Volume 36, Number 1, March 2008, pp. 103-107), Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, reviewed Julia L. Mickenberg's Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States. Isserman found Micklenberg's argument, that 1930s-era radicals made an important contribution to the children's literature read by baby-boomers in the 1950s, to be provocative and worthy of consideration. But he questioned whether children's books like "Millions of Cats" actually had much to do with changing the minds or influencing the politics of the children who grew up to become political activists in the 1960s.
