"Navigating NYC in Children’s Books: A Whistle-Stop Tour" A lecture by Pádraic Whyte, School of English, Trinity College Dublin Thursday, November 8, 2012 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Location is wheelchair accessible) Free and Open to the Public

November 6, 2012

Beinecke Library, children, city, lecture, literature, new, padraic, whyte, york

Funny rhymes!

Ye Comical Rhymes of Ancient Times, Dug Up Into Jokes For Small Folks (New York: Hurd & Houghton, circa 1864) Laughing! Out! Loud!!!

September 10, 2012

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, century, children, jokes, kids, rhymes

The Sun-Cure

A view of a tuberculosis sanitarium for children at Groslay (Northern France) during World War I. From the Edith Wharton Papers.

February 8, 2011

Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, children, cure, edith, france, sanitarium, sun, tuberculosis, wharton, wwi

Naughty tricks

Lothar Meggendorfer. Bubenstreiche: ein Verwandlungsbilderbuch. Eßlingen & München: Schreiber, 1899. One of Meggendorfer's ingenious moving books, showing the pranks of children.

October 26, 2010

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 1890s, book, buben, children, meggendorfer, movable, moving, naughty, strieche, trick

The Voice of the New Year

Along with a new stylesheet - (tell us what you think) - we present: as a special cautionary post for the New Year, the complete text of: The Warning Clock; or the Voice of the New Year. New-York: Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl-Street, 1836

January 8, 2010

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, cautionary, children, literature, new, tale, voice, warning, year

Dueling Apple Pies

Two versions of the well-known ABC tale, The History of An Apple Pie, both from the early 19th century, but which came first?

July 2, 2009