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Here is a peek at the September 2005 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn:
- Sociological Speculations on the Professions of Children’s Literature / Suman Gupta
- First Pictures, Early Concepts: Early Concept Books / Bettina K�mmerling-Meibauer & J�rg Meibauer
- Judging a Book by Its Cover: Publishing Trends in Young Adult Literature / Cat Yampbell
- Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert / Anne Booth Thompson
- The Liberty Tree and the Whomping Willow: Political Justice, Magical Science, and Harry Potter / Noel Chevalier
- Psychic Transformation and the Regeneration of Language in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn / Sue Matheson
The complete table of contents with abstracts is available at the Project Muse website (linked above), but to read the full articles online, you (or your institution) must have a subscription.
October 11th, 2005
The January 2005 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn is a special issue, titled “Handmade Literacies”. I have not read most of the articles in this issue, since I have been busy with required reading for my preservation management and history of the book courses this semester. However, I did read the short essay “Why I Like to Set Type by Hand” by master printer Barbara Henry. Henry’s essay reminded me of all the reasons why I love hand-press period books — the poetic vocabulary of printing, the meditative nature of the process, and the connection to the history of printed word. Unfortunately, the full-text is available online to subscribers only, but you can read an excerpt at the Project MUSE site.
February 12th, 2005
The latest issue of the children’s literature journal The Looking Glass is available online. This issue includes the following articles, as well as announcements and articles on technology and digitization:
- Juan Anguera, alias Flanagan: Ironic Hard-boiled Hero / Louise Salstad
- Transcending the Boundaries in David Wiesner’s The Three Pigs: Taking an askew view of words and images in picturebooks / Brian Hornberg
- Making Sense of Nonsense: An Examination of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth as Allegories of Children’s Learning / Maryn Brown
- Charlotte’s “Text”: A Note on the Etymology of Web / J.T. Barbarese
- Real-izing Fantasy: The Double-Sided Mirror of Magical Realism and “the other side of reality” in Robin McKinley’s Spindle End / Evelyn Perry
January 1st, 2005
“Royal Family“, an article by Alison Lurie in the December 16th issue of the New York Review of Books, examines the history of the Babar book series and its critics.
December 24th, 2004
Hi, all! I am back. I have been back for a few days now, but with so much to write about, I did not know where to begin.
Continuing the children’s literature theme that I began in December and expanding on the earlier Peter Pan story (and my even earlier Peter Pan nightmare), I decided to to start with this month’s Archives Hub collection of the month: “‘Second star to the right and keep on flying’: a celebration of Peter Pan and the du Maurier family”.
I look forward to my monthly “Collections of the Month” e-mail announcement–in a weird, special collections library assistant way. I wish that U.S. repositories had a similar site . . . preferably with an RSS feed . . . sigh . . . [Update/correction: That last comment was not at all about Archives Hub, which does have an RSS feed; it was a sigh about the fact that U.S. archivists and special collections librarians tend to be technical late adopters. Innovation is a good thing sometimes :-).]
More posts are on the way, including my thoughts on the Harvard Magazine article, possible weblog and reading-themed resolutions, and some highlights from my completely blog-free and relatively book-free time in North Carolina.
January 6th, 2004
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