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A Repository Like No Other: Diving Deep Into the Kerlan Collection of Children’s Literature with Lisa Von Drasek
When you work to preserve the work of great children's books of the past, so much goes into those efforts. A look at the work of the Kerlan Collection and their many exhibits.
Behind The ABC of It: A Talk With Curator Lisa Von Drasek
When I heard that Lisa Von Drasek, the curator of the Children's Literature Collection at the University of Minnesota had given a home to a new ABC of It (the children's literature exhibit that Leonard Marcus curated in NYC), I was intrigued. And when she allowed me to interview her about it? I was thrilled. Here's Lisa explaining how she managed to right a great wrong, and contribute something mighty to the world of children's literature.
Fusenews: All the news that’s fit to fuse
Boy, howdy. I haven't done a good old-fashioned Fusenews in a long time. How do these work again? I just sort of throw up the recent children's literature news from a variety of sources with comments of some sort? Honestly, I used to do these pieces fairly regularly. That is, until I realized that PW Children's Bookshelf basically had this game in the bag. They know what they're doing over there. Still, there are always some interesting tidbits that catch my eye. On beyond the usual suspects:
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The Eric Carle Honors 2011
For the past six years now the Eric Carle Museum has hosted an annual event in New York City where authors, illustrators, editors, and more have met and mingled with the chance of bidding on great works of art, honored folks in the field, and generally supported the museum and all it entails. And for […]
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