Scuffy the Tugboat vntage Little Golden Book circa 1977 Adventures down the River Children's stocking stuffer elementary reading.

Little Golden Books was the brainchild of Georges Duplaix, who in 1940 was head of Artists and Writers Guild Inc., a division of Western Publishing tasked with developing new children's books. Meanwhile, a shared printing plant led Western and Simon & Schuster to develop a close relationship. In 1938, the first joint effort between Western and Simon & Schuster, A Children’s History, was published.

Duplaix had the idea to produce a colorful, more durable and affordable children’s book than those being published at that time which sold for $2 to $3. With the help of Lucile Olge, also working at the Guild, Duplaix contacted Albert Leventhal, a vice president and sales manager at Simon & Schuster, and Leon Shimkin, also at Simon & Schuster, with his idea.

Crampton, Gertrude
Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures down the River; Golden Book
Western Pub, Racine Wi - sixteenth printing; 1977; copyright 1955.