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In roduc ion

Our rst books stir and shape us as few books ever can again.

Goodnight Moon! Pippi Longstocking! A Wrinkle in Time!For more than three centuries, books made with the young inmind have served as indispensable gateways to literature, art,and knowledge of the world. And if, as adults, we nd that ourown childhood favorites remain as thrilling, funny, or heart-stoppingly beautiful as ever, we should not be surprised.As W. H. Auden wisely observed, There are no good bookswhich are only for children.

Todays brightly packaged, increasingly globalized literaturefor young people has complex roots in world folklore,Enlightenment philosophy, nationalist fervor, and the pictorialnarrative traditions of Asian and Western art, among othersources. Collectively, these books form a vivid record of literatesocietys changing hopes and dreams, and of the never-endingchallenge of communicating with young readers in the mostcompelling possible way.

The ABC of It draws from collections across the Libraryto present literature for children and teens against asweeping backdrop of history, the arts, popular culture, andtechnological change. The books and related objects on viewreveal hidden contexts and connections, inviting second looks

and fresh discoveries. They suggest that books for youngpeople have stories to tell us about ourselvesand are rarelyas simple as they seem.


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Visions of Childhood

ABOVE:Detail of children from a hand-coloredetching. 1843. Picture Collection


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Off he Shelf:Giving and Geting Books

ABOVE:Drawing from Alices Adventures inWonderland . John Tenniel. Pencil,ca. 1885. Henry W. and Albert A. BergCollection of English and AmericanLiterature


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Raising a Ruckus

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From Page o S ageand Beyond

ABOVE:Original drawing forThe WonderfulWizard of Oz . W. W. Denslow. Pen andink, 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. WallachDivision of Art, Prints and Photographs,Print Collection


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Ar is ry of he Pic ure Book

ABOVE:Illustration from A Apple Pie. KateGreenaway. London: George Routledge& Sons, 1886. George Arents Collection

FOLLOWING PAGE:Illustration fromThe Diverting Historyof John Gilpin . Randolph Caldecott.London: George Routledge & Sons, 1878.The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Divisionof Art, Prints and Photographs, PrintCollection


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S oried Ci y: New York

ABOVE:Engraving fromThe Cries of New-York .New York: S. Wood & Sons, 1816. RareBook Division

FOLLOWING PAGE:Detail fromHokusai manga . HokusaiKatsushika. Biy [Nagoya]: Thekid,1817. Spencer Collection


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My thanks to the following New York Public Library curators, librarians,and staff members for their unfailingly generous and professionalassistance: Myriam de Arteni, Edwina Ashie-Nikoi, Lyndsi Barnes,Virginia Bartow, Jeffrey Bayer, Elizabeth Bird, George Boziwick, David G.Christie, Thea Constantine, Stephen Corrsin, Marie Coughlin, ElizabethCronin, Elizabeth Denlinger, Louise Deveaux, Ching-Yen Donahue,Steven Fullwood, Andrew Gaylard, Caryn Gedell, Isaac Gewirtz, MargaretGlover, Alvaro Lazo, Denise Hibay, Rick Hunter, Michael Inman, DianeJune, Bob Kosovsky, Diana Lachatanere, Jeanne Lamb, Thomas Lannon,Elizabeth Lareau, Jeremy Megrew, Miranda Mims, Tal Nadan, NicholasOuellette, Andrew Pastore, Jessica Pigza, R. Scott Porter, Jenny Santos,Allison Schlegel, Amy Schwegel, Isabel Stauffer, Nick Teti, Annie Varnot,Madeleine Viljoen, Melanie Yolles, and Hee-Gwone Yoo.

These individuals graciously responded to research queries orwere helpful in identifying needed material: Per Ola dAulaire, Lene

Balleby, Tatiana Bedjanian, Claudia Bedrick, Ann K. Beneduce, RobertBird, Joel Birenbaum, Miranda Blue, Patricia Boulos, Brenda Bowen,Marcia Brown, Elisabeth von Buchwald, Angelica Carpenter, GeorgeCooper, Jonathan Cott, Brian Crowley, Carmen Diana Dearden, StevenDiamond, Monica Edinger, Yvonne Ericson, Jules Feiffer, TomomiFujimoto, Gary Guadagnolo, R. Harvey, Pedro Juan Hernndez, BeverlyHorowitz, Judy Taylor Hough, Andrea Immel, Caroline Jewell, JacobJrgensen, Norton Juster, Victor Kholodkov, Hilary Knight, DeborahKurosz, Martha Lawler, Stephanie Lovett, Olga Maeots, Jean Marcellino,John Mason, Emily Arnold McCully, Sharon McQueen, Diane Muldrow,Walter Dean Myers, Eisha Neely, Iva Prokeov, Viviana Quinones,Stanley Rabinowitz, Patrick J. Rodgers, Dean Rogers, Morton Schindel,Vladimir Semenikhin, Veronika evkov, Adrienne Sharp, Umesh

Shukla, James Smith, Linda Gramatky Smith, Melissa Smith, JohnSolum, Nancy Southworth, Tracy van Straaten, Vilm Strnsk, AlanTannenbaum, Jennifer Tobias, Nancy Vacek, Charlotte Jones Voiklis,Bernard Waber, Abigail Weisgard, Debra Whelan, Martha White, DavidWiesner, Kazuko Yoda, Timothy Young, Mary Zuber, and Lisbeth Zwerger. My special thanks to The New York Public LibrarysSusan Rabbiner and Kailen Rogers for their expert guidance and steadfastsupport; my ne editor, Marcie Muscat; Urshula Barbour and KarilynJohanesen of Pure+Applied for their inspired exhibition design; and tomy research assistant, Patrick Kiley, for his superlative work and goodcompanionship at every stage of this project.Leonard S. Marcus, Exhibition Curator

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