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08/02/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: Pooping, Mewling and Puking: Iona Opie’s Babies: An Unsentimental Anthology (1990) Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University University Library
Pooping, Mewling and Puking: Iona Opie’s Babies: An Unsentimental Anthology (1990) “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock (1948), chapter 2. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in his nurse’s arms.” Shakespeare, As …
08/02/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying | Pop Goes the Page The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying Posted on August 2, 2022 by Dana Sheridan Just posted! A BiblioFiles interview with graphic novelist Victoria Ying, creator of City of Secrets and its sequel, City of Illusion. In City of Secrets we meet two children, Ever Barnes and Hannah Morgan. Ever is an....
06/20/2022
Dancing for Joy: The Slave Trade Has Been Abolished
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
Dancing for Joy: The Slave Trade Has Been Abolished In 1829, the Irish-born writer Edward Mangin (1772-1852) had thirteen half-penny chapbooks just 83 mm tall bound up for a present. Twelve published by Philip Rose in Bristol and one by J. and C. E…
06/14/2022
Two Hearts: Explaining Pregnancy to Soviet Children
Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
Two Hearts: Explaining Pregnancy to Soviet Children We’re happy to introduce the third post by our special guest blogger: Polina Popova. A PhD candidate in History at the University of Illinois Chicago, Polina specializes in modern Russian and…
06/11/2022
Meet the 2022 Special Collections Summer Fellow for Firestone Library Princeton University Library
Meet the 2022 Special Collections Summer Fellow for Firestone Library Name: Kate Mitchell Education Background: I recently graduated from Rutgers University with my Master’s in Information Science with a concentration in archives and preservation. I also did my under…
06/08/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: Before Animal Videos Went Viral: Fast Friends and False in Andrew Lang’s Animal Story Book (1896) Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
Before Animal Videos Went Viral: Fast Friends and False in Andrew Lang’s Animal Story Book (1896) Any old family vacation house by the sea should have a neglected cache of old books somewhere and I discovered one in the second story bedroom, where I picked out The Animal Story Book edited by …
06/06/2022
This Side of Metadata: Special Collections PACSCL DEI Internship Princeton University Library
Special Collections PACSCL DEI Internship This Spring, Special Collections participated as a host institution in a PACSCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries)-sponsored semester-long, pilot DEI internship program…
05/29/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: Party Line! Listen in on Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
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05/09/2022
Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated There’s no magic in the rags-to-riches story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, shown at the left at the height of his fame from a chapbook ca. 1808 published by T. Sabine and son (…
05/05/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library
Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated There’s no magic in the rags-to-riches story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, shown at the left at the height of his fame from a chapbook ca. 1808 published by T. Sabine and son (…
03/10/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: Marks in Books 13: A Drawing of a Rose in Mrs. Sherwood’s The Re-captured Negro Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University University Library
Marks in Books 13: A Drawing of a Rose in Mrs. Sherwood’s The Re-captured Negro It’s easier to find doodles, scribbles, and inscriptions in children’s books than polished drawings. When I discover one, I always hope that it will provide some insight into the artist, who presu…
03/02/2022
Cotsen Children's Library: A Rare Print Makes A Poor Fan But A Great Find!
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A Rare Print Makes A Poor Fan But A Great Find! I came across the above item while rummaging through a box of unprocessed prints. I was immediately struck by the unusual semi-circle shape of the paper. Then, I was taken in by the details of the …
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