| The Henrietta Hochschild Collection of
Children's Books numbers over 1,000 books, magazines, and
ephemeral pieces documenting the evolution of children's
literature. Among the items in the collection are a Buck Rogers
illustrated pop-up edition, several works by the 19th-century
creator of movable picture books, Lothar Meggendorfer, and a
stunning advance copy of Maxfield Parrish's Knave of
Hearts, published in 1925. |
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| The collection is used by researchers interested in the
formative influence that fairy stories, fantasy, and other
popular works have had on the literary, social, and moral
development of grown-ups, especially the imagination of poets,
fiction writers, and artists. Students of book history and its
attendant specializations -- design, illustration, the interplay
of text and image -- will also find the collection a valuable
resource. |
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Henrietta Hochschild,
1998.
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Henrietta Hochschild was a St. Louis educator and reading
specialist who created teaching tools for children. A long-time
collector of children's books, she donated a choice selection
from her library to Washington University in 1986. In 1989,
designated as Year of the Young Reader, the university honored
Hochschild by installing an exhibition of works from her
collection and hosting two lectures on children's literature by
Roger Sale, professor of English at the University of Washington
in Seattle and a children's literature specialist. |
Retrieve a list of books in the
Hochschild Collection from the library catalog.
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| Buck Rogers: 25th century, featuring Buddy
and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" (Chicago:
Pleasure Books, c1935). |
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| Curious Creatures: a new movable toy book of
all kinds of animals. By Lothar Meggendorfer (London: H. Grevel
& Co., [n.d.]). |
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| The knave of hearts. By Louise Saunders, with
pictures by Maxfield Parrish (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1925). Advance copy. |
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