Two of her books, Fog Magic and The Light at Tern Rock, were among the annual Newbery Medal runners-up.
[2]: 851 Though she lived most of her life in Rochester, Sauer spent many summers in Little River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The side supporting fantasy was symbolized by the nightingale, a figure of ethereal beauty from fairy tales.
The ALA asked Julia Sauer to address the controversy, and in 1941 the Library Journal published her article "Making the World Safe for the Janey Larkins".
"[6] Sauer presented the paper "Library Services to Children in a World at War" to the 8th Pan- American Child Congress in Washington, DC, in 1942.
At the behest of the Atlantic Monthly, in 1955 Sauer and two others, Virginia Haviland and Elizabeth Gross, compiled a list of "50 Outstanding Books Published Since 1940".
As Mary Lystad writes in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, "The story goes back and forth from the real present to the conjured-up past, pointing out the thin line between a person's reality and his fantasy, and the need for the acceptance of the two.