Matthew Battles Fan Club?
Matthew Battles, coordinating editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin and author of Library: An Unquiet History, earned both the Librarian.net quote of the week and Jessamyn West’s praise today. Jumping...
View ArticleIn which A. A. Milne has a birthday and links and a brief bibliography are...
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne was born on this day in 1882 in London. I had originally planned to put this in the “about this page” module at the top of this page, but then I decided that this author’s...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman on the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood
Continuing with today’s (unplanned) favorite stories from childhood theme . . . In his latest journal entry, Neil Gaiman writes about his recent photo shoot for an ALA READ poster and his thoughts on...
View ArticleThe man with Beatrix Potter’s magic walking stick
Returning home last night, after a very trying week, all I wanted to do was crawl into bed and not emerge again. But, then, I remembered that I saw a post yesterday on Kids Lit about Maurice Sendak...
View ArticleAiko Nakane, 1908-2004
I was very sad to learn this week that Aiko Nakane died last Wednesday. Nakane was a Japanese paper expert and the founder of Aiko’s Art Materials in Chicago. She had an amazing understanding of the...
View ArticleHere and Now interview with Matthew Battles
Michael Goldfarb interviews Matthew Battles, author of the recently published book Widener: Biography of a Library. [via Ex Libris list and also seen on the Reading Room weblog]
View ArticleLeona Rostenberg, 1908-2005
I was sad to read that scholar, rare book dealer, and past ABAA president Leona Rostenberg died last Thursday, March 17. The story of her life and work is described in yesterday’s New York Times...
View ArticleCongratulations, Terry Belanger and Rare Book School
My news queue is so long at this point that I fear that I will never have time to catch up. But, j’s post prompted me to mention a few important things. As I am assuming most of you know, Terry...
View Article[People] Stan Berenstain, 1923-2005
Stan Berenstain died last weekend at the age of 82. With his wife, Jan, he wrote and illustrated hundreds of books set in Bear Country. I was not a huge Berenstain Bears fan as a child, but two...
View ArticleMomoko Ishii, 1907-2008
Author, editor, translator, and Japanese children’s literature pioneer Momoko Ishii died on April 2 at the age of 101. Although few people outside of Japan (and many people in Japan, I suspect)...
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