Nippers was a children's book series for early readers established by Leila Berg and published by Macmillan Educational in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1983.
[1] Berg, who contributed many titles to the series herself, explained her motivation in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement: Nippers are written in the belief that every child needs to be able to look at a book or hear a story and feel "That's me!".
[2]The series encountered opposition, "on the grounds that children were being given what they already knew and that the vocabulary of the stories was impoverished and limiting".
In the early 1970s, Berg also recruited several Black authors to write for Nippers, including Beryl Gilroy and Petronella Breinburg.
[1] Other contributors included J. L. Carr, Charles Causley, Mary Cockett, Helen Cresswell, Joan Eadington, Nigel Gray, Trevor Griffiths, Geraldine Kaye, Janet McNeill, Helen Solomon and Jacqueline Wilson.