Cotsen Children’s Library
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The Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University is a specialized library dedicated to children's literature. Their website provides information about the library, its collections, events, and blog posts written by the curatorial staff.
Cotsen Children’s Library
5d ago
Margery Williams’ The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real (1922) may have been booted off recent lists of 10 and 100 best children’s books by Mo Willem’s Knuffle Bunny (2004), but the book keeps rolling on. The original version ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
3w ago
In anticipation of the solar eclipse in August 2017, Minjie Chen delved into the collection to see what there was about the subject. She found some wonderful things to share with our readers and it’s worth running again in time ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
3w ago
In the 1680s antiquarian John Aubrey was the first Englishman to mention the observance of April Fool’s Day. He stated that it was celebrated all over Germany, but folklorists assume that the holiday was imported from France, where seems to ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
1M ago
The featured illustrations of hard-working Easter bunnies were not taken from a picture book, but from a group of children’s handkerchiefs in the collection. These four, along with forty-eight more examples, were bound into a book (Cotsen 18735). There is ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
1M ago
This wall hanging (or poster, if you prefer) was purchased years ago, a little ahead of the rise in scholarly interest in children’s creations as outsider art, whether found in illustrated magazines, homemade booklets, or copybooks. The lurid story here ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
2M ago
Today I discovered a rather surprising book, Buebchens Traum [Little Boy’s Dream] by a Dagmar von Natzmer published around 1909 in Potsdam, by a firm in Potsdam, Germany. Its lovely cover features a snowy owl. I didn’t find an entry ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
2M ago
Tom Lamb (full name Thomas Babbit Lamb, 1896-1988)doesn’t show up in major studies of American illustrated books like Barbara Bader’s American Picture Books from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within (1976) or Leonard Marcus’s Minders of Make-Believe (2008). Lamb’s picture ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
2M ago
Fancy chocolates, a dozen red roses, and cards expressing seasonal sentimentare the perfect traditional gifts for Valentine’s Day, having replaced the true lover’s knots of ribbon that used to be exchanged decades and decades ago. Books have been promoted as ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
3M ago
Do you spoil your dog? Be honest… If you worry that this is a modern phenomenon, read the 2016 post by Ian Dooley, then the Cotsen Curatorial Assistant, now hard-working doctoral student. It should provide a little context. On this dog ..read more
Cotsen Children’s Library
3M ago
The best stories have always lent themselves to retelling, reillustration, or transformation into new formats and there’s a new display of some wonderful reimaginings–some of them surprises, some old friends–on display in Cotsen now through March. It’s the first exhibition ..read more