Illustrated Poetry in the Henrietta Hochschild Collection of Children’s Books Poetry is a celebration of language and sound. Originating as an oral tradition, poems have moved audiences with their rhyme,...
Margaret Wise Brown’s Celebration of the Seasons While Margaret Wise Brown may not be a household name, her work graces the bookshelves of most children’s libraries, including...
Read the Beat: Music in Children’s Literature Since the advent of children’s literature as a genre, there has been a mutually enriching relationship between music and books...
Animal Tales in the Henrietta Hochschild Collection From mischievous bunnies to fearsome wolves, animal characters grace the pages of the majority of picture books beloved by young...
The Medieval Mind of Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), the English writer known to many for his celebrated fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of...
The Malleus Maleficarum: A 15th Century Treatise on Witchcraft The Malleus Maleficarum, known in English as The Hammer of Witches, was first published in Germany in 1486 and became one of...
The Libraries Acquire a Rare Book of the French and Italian Renaissance The Julian Edison Department of Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Hypnerotomachie, ov Discours du songe de Poliphile, printed in...
Women Who Painted Books The Industrial Revolution created the mass production of books, out of which came the Arts and Crafts Movement and the...
Hidden Treasures: Jeweled Bindings in Special Collections The jeweled binding, also known as the treasure binding, is a form of bookbinding that emerged during the Middle Ages...
Fore-Edge Paintings We’ve all heard that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but what about its pages? Today we will...
Reference Volumes on Native American Tribes As we come to the end of Native American Heritage Month, we want to highlight some of the extensive volumes...
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage with Revista Chicano-Riqueña September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, and we are celebrating by highlighting some of the materials in...