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Author: Eulalie Steinmetz
Publisher: Boston : Horn Book
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout a career spanning half a century, as bookseller, reviewer, editor, and promoter of the good word about good books, Bertha Mahony Miller stimulated authors, illustrators, and publishers to hold the highest standards for text and illustration for young readers.
Author: Eulalie Steinmetz Ross
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781437977578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Bertha Mahony Miller, who was a pioneer in the field of literature for children at the time it began a rapid development in America. Throughout a career spanning half a century, as bookseller, reviewer, editor, and promoter of the good word about good books, she stimulated authors, illustrators, and publishers to hold the highest standards for text and illustration for young readers. As secretary of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, she began The Bookshop for Boys and Girls. When she married William Miller in 1932, she withdrew from the bookshop but continued as editor of the Horn Book until 1950 and remained active in running it until her death in 1969. She also helped to compile several books about children's book illustrators.
Author: Barbara Sicherman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780674627338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.
Author: Edith Henderson Grotberg
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sybille Jagusch
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-06-18
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 1978822634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications. This volume takes readers on a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role that representations of Japan played in the evolution of children’s literature, including the early works of Edward Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books, folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of Congress.
Author: Jacalyn Eddy
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2006-09-25
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0299217930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book, shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 1320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1609381920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
Author: Gale Eaton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1442236485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Alice M. Jordan, who headed children’s work at the Boston Public Library (BPL) from 1902 to 1940, is long overdue. Daughter of a Maine sea captain and a Massachusetts schoolteacher, she was one of the pioneering generation of children’s librarians, women who entered the field when salaries were low, progressive ideals high, academic credentials spotty, and the drive to professionalization was revolutionizing librarianship and education. Modest and unassuming, high-school graduate Jordan worked effectively to improve educational opportunities for children and their librarians alike. She taught at the Simmons Library School, helped create the BPL Training School, founded the New England Round Table of Children’s Librarians (NERTCL), and mentored Bertha Mahony Miller, founder of The Horn Book Magazine. She had a national reputation among children’s book editors and librarians for her critical acumen, clear writing, and astute advice. Locally, she networked tirelessly with Boston educators, negotiated the placement of qualified children’s librarians in all BPL branches, and trained a generation of gifted youth workers—all from a desk in the middle of a busy children’s room. She left a legacy of high standards for children’s reading, storytelling, and reference services. This biography draws on archival materials including Jordan’s correspondence with poet Louise Imogen Guiney and Horn Book editor Miller; BPL memos and reports; and 1979 interviews with Jordan trainees. I have shown her life and achievement in the context of social history, from late nineteenth-century women’s economic opportunities to early twentieth-century developments in librarianship, especially at the BPL. Each chapter has a brief list of milestones in Jordan and U.S. history.
