Children's Books
The books people remember longest. Picture books and the illustrator's craft, primers and fairy tales, Carroll and Sendak and Blyton, board books, banned children's titles, and the reading that decides whether anyone becomes a reader at all.
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20 moments in this segment.
- - Jongeman meelezend met meisje-Rijksmuseum. Meisje zittend op trap van veranda, een brief lezend terwijl een achter haar staande jongen over haar schouder meeleest. Een gedicht in een wolkvormig cartouche langs de bovenkant van de prent. Label Line: mentioned on object Suzuki Harunobu (1725 - 1770), 1765 - 1770, kleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken Collection: prenten; Japan (collectie)
- - Kinder und Hausmärchen - 2nd edition. An illustrated edition of Grimm’s fairy tales.
- - Kinder und Hausmärchen - 3nd edition. An illustrated edition of Grimm’s fairy tales.
- - Woman Reading to Two Children. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Spain. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1824–25.
- - Jonge vrouw leest een brief. Identificatie Titel(s): Jonge vrouw leest een brief Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1909-3265 Catalogusreferentie: Collectie Rijksmuseum-2(3) Opschriften / Merken: annotatie, recto rechtsonder, handgeschreven in potlood: ‘2ème’ (Staataanduiding, 2ème état (tweede staat).) Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Louise Danse (eigenhandig gesigneerd) Datering: 1877 - 1909 Materiaal en Techniek
- - "Little Girl Reading" Sculpture at SCPL. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
- - Karl Nieschlag lesendes Mädchen. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
- - Girl Reading(GN08755) - State Government Photographer. Girl reading a book featuring the title 'The Children's Hour' and a photograph of a Hippopotamus. Taken at Thebarton Primary School, 1945.
- - Reading to children, and why it matters. State Library of Queensland session on research linking early read-aloud to language, vocabulary and later literacy.
- - Tracking the roots of reading. MIT's Gabrieli Lab on brain imaging in pre-readers that identifies differences in children later found to be at risk of dyslexia.
- - Children's reading in the digital age. RSA panel on designing literacy learning that works with rather than against digital media.
- - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Alice in Wonderland. An Oxford humanities lecture on the origins, publication and reception of Carroll's book.
- - Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the 1886 facsimile. An antiquarian bookseller presents the published facsimile of Carroll's original manuscript.
- - A first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866. An antiquarian bookseller examines a copy of the 1866 Alice, describing its printing history and condition.
- - The Tale of Peter Rabbit before it was a book. The Morgan Library shows Beatrix Potter's original illustrated letter, which she later self-published as a book.
- - The origin of Alice in Wonderland. A rare-book dealer explains how the story reached print from a boating trip and a handwritten gift.
- - The future of reading. Stanford's Rebecca Silverman on decoding, comprehension and what changes when children read on screens rather than paper.
- - What happens in a multi-literate child's brain. Interview with Dr Froso Argyri on reading in more than one script or language and its cognitive effects.
- - A sharp drop in children reading for pleasure. Sky News reports survey findings showing fewer British children reading for enjoyment.
- - The ALA Youth Media Awards. The American Library Association's annual ceremony announcing the Newbery, Caldecott and other children's book awards.