Complete Listing of All Public Children’s Literature Statues in the United States – A Call for New Submissions

The other day I was reading through my Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf newsletter and I came upon this little news item:

“On September 20, literature lovers attended the reveal of a new statue of The Little Prince on Villa Albertine’s garden wall in Manhattan in honor of the 80th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved book.”

Statue? Did they say statue? Thaaaaat’s right!

For long long longtime readers of this blog, you may already know that I cultivate an odd little list. I call it the Complete Listing of All Public Children’s Literature Statues in the United States. The first of these posts came out ten years ago in 2013 and was subsequently updated in 2017. A lot of time has passed since then, wouldn’t you say? Statues, as I have just shown, are going up all the time. And maybe you, gentle readers, have heard of some that I have not!

With that in mind, here are things to bear in mind:

1. If you’d like to suggest a statue, just make sure that it isn’t already listed here. The statues are listed alphabetically by the book each character is from.
2. The statues must be available in America. Maybe someday I’ll create a worldwide list, but for now we’re keeping our sights strictly on American statues.
3. The statues must be available to the public without cost. I know that plenty abide in museums or amusement parks. Those don’t interest me. I want the statues that anyone could walk up and see if they wanted to.
4. If you’ve a statue in mind, please email it to me at fusenumber8@gmail.com by October 31st. I’ll be sure to credit you if I use the statue in the new post.

That’s all there is to it! So tell me, folks. What statues am I missing these days?

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