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Month: <span>April 2017</span>

Month: April 2017

books for boys, books for girls, chapbooks, education & learning, fairy tales, folktales - European, history, illustrated books, Scotland, Scots

Chapbooks for Children: the missing link in the history of Scottish children’s literature?

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  Children’s literature has a long history of being ‘entertaining and instructing’. I’ve taken this week’s blog title from a specific chapbook: The Entertaining and Instructing History of Little Jack.  This copy belongs to Glasgow University Library’s Special Collections, and I am very grateful for their permission to include some …

'found objects', animals & nature, books for girls, education & learning, inscriptions & dedications, readers & book owners, religion & devotion

The secret lives of SELCIE’s books

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Every Thursday afternoon the SELCIE team descend the long winding stairs which lead down into the Museum of Childhood’s book vault, as if entering a series of secret chambers! Every box of unpacked books holds secrets  –  you never know what lies inside. So too does every book. Except sometimes when opening …

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