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The late Floyd Cooper wins a 4th Coretta Scott King Award for Unspeakable

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Mysterious Bread Sculptures: Masapán of Calderón, Ecuador

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Black Paper Dolls in Mattel’s Happy Family Brand

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Skipper, Barbie’s Little Sister, Is Having Growing Pains

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A Woman Writer Publishes Her First Book: Lucy Peacock and The Adventures of the 6 Princesses of Babylon (1785)

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Looking at an Icon: A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744)

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Halloween: It’s Not Just for Pumpkins

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Banned Books from History: Robert Dodsley’s Chronicles of the Kings (1740) “Altogether Abominable”

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Floyd Cooper (1956-2021): Picture Book Historian of Black Americans

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How Bad Girls Pass for Good Ones: Tales for Perfect Children (1985) by Florence Parry Heide

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What Crocodiles Eat for Dinner Besides Clocks, Pirate Captains, and Elephants’ Children

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Wood Blocks for the Illustrations of Newbery Children’s Books Acquired

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Magic Lantern Slides of Avant-garde Soviet Children’s Books: Marshak, Lebedev, Chukovskii, Konashevich, and More…

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Little Red Riding Hood Retold by Beatrix Potter and Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

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Spoiled Children Who Rule the Family: An Old Bachelor’s Complaint ca. 1799

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Picturing Education: Students, Teachers, and Classrooms in the Catalogue of the Cotsen Children’s Library

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Drum Cake for Independence Day from Betty Crocker’s Classic Cook Book for Boys and Girls (1957)

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“The Beginning, Progress and End of Man:” Rare Harlequinades of Emblems Acquired

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Jane Austen for Babies: Board and Picture Books for Future Janeites

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Jim Kay’s Wizarding World 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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