Cotsen Children’s Library

Happy 250th! : Samuel Holbrook’s Copy Book from 1776
Superboy Saves 1776 in Adventure Comics 296 May 1962
Christopher Orr’s Funny Animal Alphabet on an Unmentionable Subject
Made by a Rascally Writing Master: Manuscripts of “The Beginning, Progress, and End of Man”
Charles Lamb and the “Detestable Picture” of the Witch of Endor: Strange Dreams Are Made of This
Welcome Back Tigers to Reunions 2026! Download a Free Image of a Tiger…
What Is It???: Readers Respond to Peter Parley’s Feature “The Odd Picture”
What Future Presidents Read: Little John Quincy Adams and “Giles Gingerbread”
Peter Parley’s Craft Corner: Penwipers and Pincushions
The Robins in The Children in the Wood and Other Birds Who Watch Over People
The Secret Lives of Dolls, Plants, and other Inanimate Objects
Making More of the Skelt and Webb Collection of Toy Theater Theater
Confronting Fear and Anxiety in Picture Books
It’s the Olympic Games Season—Flip Your Back…or These Pages!
John Newbery Proposes an Unorthodox Way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
How to Dress the Emperor in His New Clothes
Pettson and Findus Make a Snow Lantern (Snölytka in Swedish)
Arte Grafica Monza’s Paper Model of a Race Car
A Recipe for Mince Pies in The Lilliputian Magazine (1752)
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen: Adaptions for Children You Never Imagined

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