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Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen Homophones upset grammarians. But Mondegreen Rules, OK? They are a source of gaiety in the English language. Falstaff, Alice, Dickens and Edward Lear would be lost without them. … Continue reading →

The Uses of Enchantment In ”The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen suggests that immortality can serve as a substitute, however unsatisfactory, for human love. The story is clearly an allegory for his own life, for the unloved Andersen, more than … Continue reading →

Poetics of Children’s Literature by Zohar Shavit The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1986[Full text online.]

Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano Concepito nell’aprile 1881, il capolavoro di Collodi compie centoventi anni. La Toscana ha perci� indetto il “1° Festival del Teatro di Pinocchio”. Molti spettacoli in tutta Italia.[On the aniversary of Collodi’s conception of Pinocchio, with a … Continue reading →

Why is it de rigueur for members of the avant-garde to try to stump us? Think of the Surrealists and the Dadaists, with their deadpan refusal to make sense; the authors of the French nouveau roman, with their poker-faced descriptions … Continue reading →

Les illustrateurs jeunesse Cette sélection présente un nombre important d’illustrateurs et d’auteurs-illustrateurs pour la jeunesse, classès par ordre alphabétique, par nationalité et par époque. Cette liste est régulièrement mise à jour. Elle signale les artistes confirmés mais aussi ceux moins … Continue reading →

Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children’s Books from University of California Collections, 1550�1990 Welcome to Picturing Childhood, an online version of the catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los … Continue reading →

University of Delaware: WORLD OF THE CHILD – Two Hundred Years of Children’s Books An exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris LibraryUniversity of Delaware LibraryFebruary 17 – June 12, 1998

Exhibit Essay for Hey Diddle Diddle: A History of Children’s Book Illustration An exhibit featuring books from the University Library’s Special Collections, Multicultural Children’s Literature Curriculum Collection, and Private Collections.McHenry LibraryUniversity of California, Santa CruzJanuary 3 – March 19, 2001