Miriam & Ezra Elia's response to Penguin books

Some say I was beggared by an act of corporate vandalism. Others that I have been duped, exploited, and sold into copyright slavery. But the simple fact is that Penguin Books are right. They were right to threaten me with legal action when I first released We Go to the Gallery, and right also to force me to pulp all remaining copies of the first edition. They were right to call my work morally bankrupt (which it is), and infer that it would corrupt the minds of young children (which it certainly has). They were right also to lie about the fact they owned the copyright to the original illustrations, because to do good, sometimes you have to be bad.