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American Children's Books |
| Section: LIFE / CHILDREN |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,026 Words, 12,451 Characters |
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"As a child I didn't read chapter by chapter," recalls children's book collector Betsy Beinecke Shirley, "I read illustration to illustration. I always looked at the pictures, that was how I decided if I wanted to read the book." Shirley's interest in children's literature has been an abiding one. An avid collector of American first editions for many years, she has assembled one of the country's most comprehensive private collections of children's books and the original art created for their illustration. Included in her collection are hundreds of rare books and original drawings and painting--ranging from an eighteenth-century schoolchild's hornbook and illustrations from such nineteenth-century classics as Little Lord Fauntleroy to twentieth-century characters like Raggedy Ann and Andy a...
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...fore Christmas continue to be children's favorites.
This holiday season, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta is exhibiting books from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection. Judy Larson, the exhibition organizer, comments that the odler books are especially appreciated by adults who remember them as part of their childhood: "Adults get so excited when they come to books they recognize." vbcrlf
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