They Live
She wrote a poem on childrearing, "Children Learn What They Live", for a weekly family column for "The Torrance Herald" in 1954. The poem was widely circulated by readers as well as distributed to millions of new parents by a maker of baby formula. She copyrighted it in 1972, and in 1998 expanded it into a book, co-authored with Rachel Harris, "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". At the time of Nolte's death, the book had more than 3 million copies in print worldwide and had been translated into 18 languages, according to its publisher, Workman Publishing. Nolte and Harris also collaborated on "Teenagers Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity and Independence" (Workman Publishing, 2002).