[citation needed] Children’s book editor Margaret Lesser heard the confrontation at the front desk, invited her in, read the manuscript and accepted The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes a few minutes later.

[5][6] Over the years Krasilovsky published 20 books for children,[3] including The Very Little Girl and Scaredy Cat and perhaps best remembered, The Cow Who Fell in the Canal and Benny’s Flag.

[1] In the late 1960s, Krasilovsky was part of an initiative of eminent children’s book authors who pressed for foreign rights to their works to be negotiated separately from domestic publishing contracts.

As a child of the Depression, she had attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn on the commercial track to learn typing and stenography but also joined the debating team, whose medal she won in her graduating year and where she met her future husband.

[citation needed] The success of her book The Cow Who Fell in the Canal led the Dutch government to honor her with a reception at its Consulate in New York and a trip to the Netherlands.