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Children's Education and Literature Collections

Explore more than 3,000 volumes of children鈥檚 books including fairy tales, pop-up books, picture books, fables from around the world and educational books (primers, readers and geography books). The collections highlighted below are a small part of our children's education and literature collections. 

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Moveable and miniature books acquired from J. Whirler Books of Portland, Oregon, which specialized in children鈥檚 and pop-up books.
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Photographs, drawings, paintings, proofs and reference materials from Tennessee Dixon, illustrator of "The Princess and the Peacocks Or, the Story of the Room" by Linda Merrill and Sarah Ridley, published in 1993.
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David Small and Sarah Stewart Archive

Journals, sketches, correspondence, drafts, unpublished works, poetry and original artwork that document the work and daily life of these internationally-recognized, Michigan-based authors.

Collection history

This collection began with donations from local librarians, Louise Singley and Eunice LeFevre. Both were active members of The Friends of the Libraries at 澳门六合彩官网直播. Miss Singley was a children's librarian at the Kalamazoo Public Library for 28 years. During her time there, she became known as "The Story Book Lady." Eunice LeFevre also enjoyed books for children. She donated many historical educational books for children because of the insight they can bring to the development of young minds and the changing perception of childhood.

Later significant donations to this collection include Peter Rabbit books and other children's books donated by M.A. Haynes-Johnson, 澳门六合彩官网直播 Professor Emerita of English, and the J. Whirler and the Jean "Sam" Tyler pop-up and movable books collections. More recently, a number of important textbooks used in instruction at the Western State Normal School have been added to the collection.

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