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29%OFFTimothy Young - Drawn to Enchant: Original Children´s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection - 9780300126730 - V9780300126730
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Drawn to Enchant: Original Children´s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection

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Description for Drawn to Enchant: Original Children´s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection Hardback. Presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection Betsy Beinecke Shirley bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. This volume offers to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. It invites reader to recollect images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood. Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Num Pages: 196 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; AKLB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 305 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1647.

Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children’s literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original artworks from the enchanting collection she bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.

 

Guiding the reader on a lively tour through the stages of childhood reading, this volume begins with ABCs and nursery books. It continues through adventure stories, magazines, and more, then concludes with a miscellany section of wonderful odds and ends. The delightfully varied images demonstrate how children’s books evolved, from ... Read more

 

From variant illustrations for Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are to little-known sketches for nineteenth-century periodicals that delighted generations of children, Drawn to Enchant offers a unique opportunity to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. Just as important, it invites each reader to recollect favorite images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood.

 



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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Series
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300126730
SKU
V9780300126730
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
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About Timothy Young
Timothy Young is curator of the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children’s Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. He is the author of My Heart in Company: The Work of J. M. Barrie and the Birth of Peter Pan, the catalogue of a major exhibition on Barrie in 2005.

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