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NYPL’s 100 Great Children’s Books | 100 Years list

By Stacy Posted on October 2, 2013 Posted in children's literature, community, diversity Tagged with booklists, children's literature, history, nypl

In celebration of their exhibit The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter, the New York Public Library has released a list of 100 great children’s books from the last 100 years. I’m pretty happy to see that 27 of …

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We could learn something from the penny dreadfuls

By Stacy Posted on August 8, 2011 Posted in children's literature, writing Tagged with children's literature, history

My latest read is a departure from my normal fiction fare: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. We start off getting some biographical details of Edward Stratemeyer, who headed the Stratemeyer Syndicate—which, far from being the …

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NYPL’s 100 Great Children’s Books | 100 Years list

We could learn something from the penny dreadfuls