#children's book week

[wellesleybooks]

We love the image Sophie Blackall has created for the poster celebrating Children's Book Week.

Children’s Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading.

Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, young people across the country participate by attending events at schools, libraries, bookstores, celebrating at home, and engaging with book creators both online and in person.

In 2024, Children's Book Week will enjoy two dedicated weeks of celebration, May 6-12 and November 4-10.

#children's book week #sophie blackall #no rules just read

[mishidefresa]

Some old doodles

#Hey I watched it chapter 2 #And I been obsessed with them #For weeks #Im currently with the audiobook #I mean is not a great book I dont even think is that good #But I got sooo #Attached to all the kids specially eddie and bev #Idk I need to protect these children #Anyway 3 years late to the fandom I guess #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #richie trashmouth #Reddie #reddie fanart #It #it stephen king #it moves #It movie #it 2019 #it 2016 #it 2017 #richie tozier fanart #eddie kaspbrak fanart

[lisamarie-vee]

#elizabeth tyler wolcott #Illustration #reading #children #national book week #1940s

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

My first Staff Pick of the Week is Leo Lionni’s whimsical children’s book On My Beach There Are Many Pebbles published in 1961 by Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In this book, Lionni (1910-1999) takes readers on a walk by an imaginative shoreline where he encounters a wide variety of anthropomorphized pebbles including fishpebbles, goosepebbles, and peoplepebbles to name a few. With brief text, readers are left to daydream over his intricate graphite illustrations of beach treasures.  

Lionni was an Italian American who was well known for his accomplishments in painting and advertising designs. While living in Philadelphia in the 1940s he worked on advertising campaigns for Ford Motors and Chrysler Plymouth before accepting the arts director position at Fortune magazine.

Later in life, Lionni moved back to Italy and began his career as a children’s book author and illustrator. He produced over forty children’s books and received numerous awards for his efforts, including the Caldecott Medal on several separate occasions. He is also credited with being the first children’s book author/illustrator to use collage as the main medium for his illustrations. While On My Beach There Are Many Pebbles does not feature collage, one can certainly experience Lionni’s playful use of shapes and composition and appreciate his passion for simple storytelling.

View more children's books from our Historical Curriculum Collection.

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#staff pick of the week #leo lionni #on my beach there are many pebbles #Ivan Obolensky #Inc. #pebbles #illustration #children's books #illustrated books #Historical Curriculum Collection

[thebanishedreader]

Florida banned porn in schools? Good for them.

Hi user!! Would you like to comment without hiding behind anonymity and tell me how these books are porn? Because they've also been banned from libraries and classrooms in Florida.

The Lion Children's Bible: Stories from the Old and New Testaments

The Usborne Book of Bible Stories

Noah's Ark: Words from the Book of Genesis

Read with Me Bible: An NIV Story Bible for Children

The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Bible Stories

The Christmas Story: According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke from the King James Bible

The Easter Story: According to the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John from the King James Bible

Extreme Faith: Twelve Radical Young Believers from the Bible Who Changed Our World

And these are just 8 of the 1,402 titles that have been banned from libraries and classrooms in Florida in 2023. There are many more in a similar vein!! If you have more Bible Porn to share I would be interested to see!

#banned books #book banning #book bans #books #bookworm #bookblr #answering anons #answering questions #american library association #literature #children's literature #reading #libraries #books and libraries #banned books week #studycore #dark academia #light academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia aesthetic #reading aesthetic #coffee #books and coffee

[crowreys-wormstache]

One of these days Adrian Tchaikovsky is gonna drop a novel about sentient spacefaring leeches and for about 600 pages I'm gonna be forced to care about those bastard creatures and I'm gonna LIKE IT

#children of time #its been a year since i finished that one #and about a week since i finished #children of ruin #now i love octopi #but the huge spiders? the bodysnatching bacteria? #Tchaikovsky has a knack for changing your entire mindset towards a critter at least temporarily #i hear the third book is about corvids and i dread to ask what the secondary sentience is this time #These of We fucked me up SEVERELY #Frankly I'll be avoiding CoM for a while cuz i dont wanna spend time with a character whose sentence is in part the These Of We #FUCK those guys #kudos to Tchaikovsky the These Of We are terrifying #but also FUCK THEM SO HARD THEY'RE TERRIFYING #adrian tchaikovsky #science fiction #books #jess talks

[iris-drawing-stuff]

Just Shidou

#milgram #milgram fanart #shidou kirisaki #doki doki literature club au #i'm back at this silly au again #i didn't want to put in the effort of making him blend in with the background because i'm really busy this week #also special apology to all shidou fans for forgetting his beauty marks in the first drawing #it probably will happen again #iris draws #I've been thinking about this AU a bit more (even though i should be focusing on upcoming exams i have) #haruka definitely wouldn't like the super dense wordy books like yuri so what would he like? (maybe children's books?) #mikoto reads mystery or horror novels because there is no way he doesn't watch horror movies in canon with an MV like that #although he did say he doesn't like violence so who knows #fuuta reads manga like natsuki but the genre is maybe isekai #he'd love the fantasy setting and wish fulfillment #although admittedly i'm not very familiar with manga as a whole so maybe there are more appropriate choices for him #i'm not sure what shidou would read though

[andtheyreonfire]

goro akechi has been dead for 7 slutty, slutty years

#well. 4 if you say royal takes place in 2019 #persona 5 #2/2 #akechi goro #goro akechi #persona 5 royal #p5r spoilers #it's not 2/2 yet in my timezone. but it is spiritually i think #my brain hurts and i just wanna buy the zine but i gotta finish the assignment uuuuuuuuuu #i think i'm out of it but i can't tell if this source is just. not even addressing why these practices are argued to be abusive #or he's just doing it purposely #''oh it's not 40 hours a week!!! it's an Average of 40 hours a week!!! and it's more like 30-35'“ #''ohh people have called out the past use of electro-shock therapy...don't they know we only used it for dangerous behaviors????'' #''ohhh well if any one was actually abused in these practices they should contact the authorities'' we are talking about CHILDREN #book-licker. i am so tired. why do you mention studies and then not source them in your references. #anyways i should be having my autism times now that's what i mean yeah

[pristina-nomine]

Prince Farad'n Corrino alias Harq al'Ada

#it's underrepresented dune favs week here at pristina-nomine.tumblr.com #dune #children of dune #farad'n corrino #duneedit #moodboards #litedit #scifiedit #booksociety #dune book spoilers

[cookinguptales]

very genuinely, though, there was an extended period of my life in which I thought that boarding schools were not real and only existed in fantasy stories where magical children had to go to school.

#I... read a lot of british fantasy as a child #I didn't realize that 'boarding school' was an existing genre of british children's literature #and these fantasy books were just applying magic to them #but no like in witch week when they set the universe right #and all the kids lose their magic #and the school is a day school instead of a boarding school #I THOUGHT THOSE TWO FACTS WERE CONNECTED #like oh well only magical children go to boarding schools so obviously it's a real school like mine now #related: I also thought that madeline was an orphan #why else would she not be living with her family #I JUST DID NOT THINK BOARDING SCHOOLS EXISTED lmao

[mvshortcut]

hey. hey uh. just wondering what happened to all the children Curtain barged and brainswept. I'm assuming he didn't have a child services worker politely waiting at the dock for them. uh. where did they go.

#the mysterious benedict society #tmbs #ld curtain #sometimes in the Big Things that Curtain's done stuff like this gets overlooked #did the kids get dropped off at the orphanage? would he really waste the time? raise suspicion about where all these kids are coming from? #assuming one student gets barged a week from the leaderboard every Thursday. in all the years the Institute's been running. #that's a lot of kids. #did the kids just get left on the docks. left to wander around Stonetown with no memories and nowhere to go #also. the fact that unlike the books. not all/most of the kids at LIVE were orphans #Martina had parents #now granted the Whisperer's messages 'the missing aren't missing' probably discouraged them from looking for their kid #but like. did the parents ever wonder. after months of not hearing from their kid. #did they go into town one day for some shopping only for their child to stumble out of an alleyway #dirty and alone and scared and with a completely blank expression #and doesn't even blink twice at their own parents? not even a spark of recognition? #thinking about when the Emergency lifted and the Whisperer's messages stopped. #how many parents suddenly remembered their children have been missing #how many parents rushed to the Institute only to find out their child disappeared years ago? #'what happened to them?'not sure. only they never say goodbye to any of their friends before they leave #like they don't even recognize them at all. #how many parents kept searching. kept following that thread. found their child in an orphanage with no memory of how they'd gotten there #anyways. food for thought!

[samireads]

Japanese lit 🇯🇵 ✌🏻

#a follow up to my most successful post #also I’m going to Japan this week so big yay! #I’m gonna go to a book shop and maybe buy some of my favourites in Japanese #as a souvenir #after the quake #after dark #sputnik sweetheart #blind willow sleeping woman #haruki murakami #idol burning #rin usami #life ceremony #sayaka murata #kitchen #banana yoshimoto #the last children of tokyo #yoko tawada #breasts and eggs #heaven #mieko kawakami #the housekeeper and the professor #yoko ogawa #japanese lit #japanese literature #translated #translated fiction #books #reading #bookblr #bookstagram

[lakecountylibrary]

Fav Books with Lesbian Characters

Oh ho ho it is Lesbian Visibility Week?? We have books for that.

There are SO MANY good books with lesbian characters out there these days! In my day, we had to walk 15 miles in the snow uphill both ways for just a lingering look between two ladies that might be interpreted as sapphic. Now we have CHOICES. Here are just a few of my favs:

The Wayward Children Series (particularly Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Come Tumbling Down) by @seananmcguire

I'll stop reccing Wayward Children when everyone has read it. The whole series features queer characters, but Down Among the Sticks and Bones (book 2) and Come Tumbling Down (book 5), featuring horror twins Jack (lesbian mad scientist) and Jill (I won't spoil it) are particular favorites of mine. And don't be intimidated by how many books are in the series - they're novellas!

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell

Speaking of not having time for full-length novels, how about an anthology of short stories? It's so wonderful to have story after story centering queer characters, especially for historical fiction fans. You'll find plenty of wlw rep in several iconic eras, from the 1700s to the 1950s.

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Yes, yes, we've all heard the lesbian necromancers in space tagline, but a catchy tagline isn't the only reason people rave about this book. The storyline is absolutely wild, and so is the writing style - a dizzying blend of baroque gothic intensity and modern linguistic turns of phrase. And that's before you even get to whatever is going on in book 2 (second person???? How? Why??) It shouldn't work, but it does. There are murders, conspiracies, politics, duels, horrors beyond human ken, and yes, lesbians. Start with Gideon the Ninth.

The Great Cities duology by @nkjemisin

New York City is awakening into a Great City, and each of its boroughs has manifested a human avatar. There's a big cast of characters, but you'll never feel confused about who is who, or bored with one particular viewpoint. The character work in this book is phenom. There's also Lovecraftian horrors, very little romance, the best found family on the Eastern Seaboard, and a lot of love for New York. If you liked Neverwhere by @neil-gaiman, you'll like this. Start with The City We Became.

See more of Robin's recs

#lesbian visibility week #book recs #lesbian characters #lgbtq reads #lesbian books #wlw books #sapphic books #wayward children #seanan mcguire #all out #saundra mitchell #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #great cities #n.k. jemisin #robin's recs #LCPL recs

[officialjamesflint]

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jim knee 😌

#tam speaks #septimus heap #i genuinely forgot a) about jim knee b) about his insane outfit c) about merrin calling him a stupid banana #syren has been fun to reread (relisten to??) because i genuinely remembed nothing except Its Spooky and some other random plot points #spoilers ish -> i just listened to the chapter where the crows throw myar off the lighthouse and i Cannot remember if he lives #so i am chomping at the bit to listen but alas i have to teach children or whatever #come my teens. i know we have a concert next week. but consider. what if we listened to a childrens fantasy book instead

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

My name is Elizabeth Voorhorst, and I am a new writing intern for Special Collections this semester. It is a pleasure to share this space, as I am excited to delve into the vast sea of books that Special Collections makes a home for.

I am an English major, with a focus on creative writing. Because of this, my time spent in Special Collections will be focused predominantly on fairy tales and folklore, perhaps dipping into mythology when curiosity and inspiration strikes hardest.

For this week, I wanted to focus on black creators and their works for Black History Month. Because my pride and passion is folklore and fairy tales, I thought it would be fun to take a look at what we have in our collection and share it with you!

Retellings are always enjoyable, as you get to see the way writers recreate and offer their own flare and heritage to the story. One such story is The Girl Who Spun Gold, a retelling of the German classic fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. This retelling was written by Virginia Hamilton (1932-2002) and illustrated by Leo Dillon (1933-2012) and Diane Dillon (1933- ).The book was published 1n 2000 by Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

The story is about a West Indian girl named Quashiba, whose mother lies to Big King that she is able to spin golden thread. The King takes Quashiba as his queen, expecting her to fill whole rooms with golden fabrics and finery, which of course she would be unable to do. However, she meets a creature who offers to help, but demands that in three days she must guess his name correctly or be bound to him forever.

Quashiba is now able to fulfill the King’s continuous demands, but is unable to guess the name of her helper, until the King reveals to her that he ran across a strange creature in the woods who was dancing and singing a song that included his name, Lit’mahn Bittyun. So, on the final night, after the room is filled with fabrics and wondrous goods, Quashiba plays dumb for the first two guesses, and on the last guess she gives him his full name and he explodes into a confetti of golden specks. The King repents his greed, but only after three years and a day does Quashiba reconcile with him.

The absolutely stunning illustrations for The Girl Who Spun Gold were made using a four-color process with gold as a fifth color. The Dillons comment on the painting process, stating:

Knowing the difficulty of painting with metallic paint as well as the difficulty of reproducing gold, we still chose to use it, for the story itself revolved around the concept of gold. The art was done with acrylic paint on acetate, over-painted with gold paint. The gold borders were created using gold leaf.

The book was printed on one-hundred-pound Nymolla Matte paper, and each illustration was spot-varnished.  Color separations were made by Digicon Imaging Inc., Buffalo, New York, and the book was printed and bound by Tien Wah Press, Singapore, with production supervision by Angela Biola and Alison Forner. Along with Leo & Diane Dillon, the book was also designed with help from Kathleen Westray.

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- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

#Staff Pick of the Week #black history month #virginia hamilton #fairy tales #Leo Dillon #Diane Dillon #the girl who spun gold #rumplestiltskin #folk tale #black writers #African American writers #African American artists #scholastic #black artists #Blue Sky Press #children's books #Historical Curriculum Collection #illustrated books #Elizabeth V.

[sleepinglionhearts]

Man, just saw a post about it, but renewed my frustration over work nonsense yesterday

Being like, oh, cool! It's disability pride month! We get to switch the displays in the store! I wanna make a really cool display right up front!!

Getting a cart to go start selecting books from our wide array of children's books, picture books, YA novels, adult fiction, nonfiction, etc that I know feature disabled characters and people and that I've seen sitting on the shelves for a while, our previous book buyer was always suuuuuper vocal about finding books w disabled characters, after all, representation just MATTERED SO MUCH to her,

And then being absolutely dumbfounded when we BARELY HAVE ANYTHING outside of characters w ADHD/Autism. MAYBE anxiety. PERHAPS a character has cancer. THE FAINTEST SUGGESTION of a wheelchair in one book. Huntington's? Question mark? In another? Conditions resulting in disfigurement/amputation? The concept could possibly exist in this book, uhh.. maybe...... anything else? Ha! Not on these shelves I fucking guess?!

Like.... we have a ton of books w queer rep! Different body types! Different skin tones! Teach your toddler about social justice! Transgender characters! Nonbinary characters! The alphabet but we're making it gay! At least one book, I think, with asexual characters! But no, we don't have our self-empowerment books anymore or the little guide to sexuality and disability, we have Buddhist monk advice for anxious people, but nooooo we DON'T have that cool book that talked about disability activism anymore, and definitely not in time for July!

I know she and I were at odds before she left, and I know my specifically putting "National month of..." prompts up on my desk calendar after she expressed it was "so difficult to find out what each month is the month of!" probably really irritated her, but I'm like. Appalled that she hadn't been ordering to restock for disability pride month since she always made such a big deal about having books like that in the store.

#venting #work stuff #she quit at the end of june #two of my coworkers and I are sorta filling in for her role while a replacement is searched for and all that #i know she put in a ton of orders before she left so I'm hoping things start to trickle in #i haven't gone thru the order submissions in detail yet to see what we're expecting #but i'll be doing that later this week #as it is today was dealing with a mess of half unpacked shipments #and correcting little mistakes here and there and leaving instructions for coworkers tomorrow #gotta say i was so... disappointed hunting for those books #i looked at the sad selection of nonfiction and self help stuff I'd found and was like. yeah i think I'd be offended #if i saw these titles all grouped together for the pride display. it just felt bad #i made a halfway decent arrangement for the children's section but it took a lot of title research #and even then like half the titles i saw in recommendation lists looked so cool and i would think #surely we should have THIS one bc it looks like the sorta thing Buyer would have ordered and it seems neat as hell! #but. uh. we would have no order history for it. #hhhrrhhrhrhrgh if i see absolutely nothing in the orders we will be expecting #I'm gonna order a bunch of books #and try to plan out the next couple of monthly themes #hmph! even if I'm not the books person I'm still gonna put in SOME effort!!