Nippers (book series)
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. The series deliberately featured working-class characters and settings. History. Berg, who contributed many titles to the series herself, explained her motivation in a letter to the "Times Literary Supplement": 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". Nevertherless, "Nippers" became firmly established. "Little Nippers", a series for younger children, followed  in 1972. In the early 1970s, Berg also recruited several Black authors to write for Nippers, including Beryl Gilroy and Petronella Breinburg. 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. According to its publisher estimates, "Nippers" and "Little Nippers" sold over two million copies. However, in 1983 Macmillan allowed the series to go out of print.