Texas Woman's University is fortunate to have more than two dozen original illustrations created for children's books produced by some of the most important names in the field of children's literature of the twentieth century.
This is the lifetime collection of Dr. Clarabel Tanner (1918- ), a distinguished TWU alumna who had a long and vital career as a school librarian. Upon her retirement, she returned to graduate school and received her doctorate from Texas Woman's University in 1987. Throughout her life she collected original art created by illustrators of children's books purchased one by one or received as gifts from the illustrators themselves. This distinguished collection includes 11 original works by winners of the prestigious Caldecott award for the single most distinguished contribution to children's book illustration in a given year, as well as eight pieces by Caldecott award runner up illustrators, and an original 19th century woodcut by the master himself, Randolph Caldecott.
The Historical Collection of Children's Literature was established in January 2002 by the TWU School of Library and Information Studies as a resource for scholarly study and teaching of children's literature of the twentieth century. This noncirculating collection, located in the Children's Collection of Blagg-Huey Library, numbers approximately 3,000 volumes, including milestone books from the 18th and 19th century, as well as general fiction, novelty picture books, series titles, story collections, Mother Goose and poetry, nonfiction and biographies, related professional reference works, and early readers designed for instruction. |
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