Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Wed July 20 at 7:00pm Eastern time What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probed the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for young people for his book You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Leonard Marcus will give a lecture on “The Modernist in the Nursery: How Author/Illustrator Dorothy Kunhardt Made the Picture Book New,” Best known for Pat the Bunny (1940), Dorothy Kunhardt turned the children’s publishing world on its ear as the creator of 40 innovative books whose jaunty […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Jason Chin is an author and illustrator of children's books dealing with nature and science. His books have won both the Sibert (the Informational Book) and Orbis (writing for Nonfiction for Children) Medals. His most recent book, Watercress (2021) won the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. It is the story […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the Holy Land; a boy tries […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Society and the American Antiquarian Society Preregistration required via website. Would you like to attend? Click here to register. EVENT DETAILS: March Evening Program This presentation explores the appropriation, adaptation, and translation of the picture book Michaelmas Day or The Fate of Poor Molly Goosey. Originally issued by London publisher Dean & […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club April 4, 6:00-7:30pm Children’s voices - found in diaries, manuscript newspapers, and other child-authored texts - constitute essential evidence for a fuller history of the American past, illuminating how young people encountered and interpreted their worlds. While such texts are abundant, they are not easily discoverable in archives. American Antiquarian […]