DOCSLIB.ORG

The Chronicles of Professionalization: the Expert, the Child, and the Making of American Children’S Literature

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Chronicles of Professionalization: the Expert, the Child, and the Making of American Children’S Literature THE CHRONICLES OF PROFESSIONALIZATION: THE EXPERT, THE CHILD, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE By REBEKAH FITZSIMMONS A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2015 1 © 2015 Rebekah Fitzsimmons 2 To my husband Rob: Thank you for riding this roller coaster with me. 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to thank my dissertation director, Dr. Kenneth Kidd. Since the first time I visited UF in 2008, you have been my cheerleader, my inspiration, and my ideal mentor. To my dissertation committee: Dr. Anastasia Ulanowicz, Dr. Susan Hegeman, and Dr. Sevan Terzian. I am constantly in awe of the work that you do and the generosity with which you share your abundant knowledge and very limited time. I have been extremely lucky to be a part of a vibrant community of children’s literature scholars. I want to thank Casey Wilson, Mariko Turk, Akilah Brown, Mary Roca, Kendra Hare, Poushali Bhadury, John Cech and everyone else for their brilliance, conversation, feedback, thoughts, ideas, and sympathy. Also, special thanks to Suzan Alteri and Rita Smith, for all of their help inside of the Baldwin (outside too). I have also been lucky enough to spend time with other scholars at UF who have, over the years, provided invaluable support, encouragement, and friendship. I finish this project knowing that Kristen Denslow, Matt and Christy Snyder, David and Ginny Lawrimore, Sarah Hayes, Sarah Traphagen, Jennifer Coenen, Emily McCann, John Tinnel, Andrew Wilson and many others had a hand in my success and continued sanity. That encouragement and friendship was also abundant beyond the boundaries of Gainesville and graduate school: many thanks to Nicole Pasquarello, Devon Merling, Lindsay Blackwell and so many others who have been cheering me on from a distance. I would like to thank my family for a lifetime of love and support. Special thanks to my parents and sisters, who were always willing to come visit me in Florida (especially in the winter, go figure). Also, thank you to Pam Lavender, for putting me in touch with Ellen Tuckner: Ms. Tuckner provided me with extremely valuable feedback about my theories on early reader picture books in the classroom while this project was in its 4 earliest genesis. Thank you also to my in-laws and extended Florida family, for helping me feel at home in Gainesville and supporting me in so many ways. Finally, thank you to my husband, Rob. You have been with me for the entire dissertation process: you listened to me talk through ideas, supported me through exams, encouraged me constantly through the years of writing, and have handled a lot of crazy during the defense and final revision process. This project would not be what it is without all of your valuable input, help, support, and love. I am so lucky to have you in my life. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................. 4 LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................................... 9 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................... 10 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................... 11 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: PROFESSIONALISM AND CHILDHOOD IN AMERICA ........... 13 Rise of Professionalism in America ........................................................................ 16 The Cultural History of American Childhood ........................................................... 23 Emerging Consumer Market for and about Children ............................................... 29 Canon Formation .................................................................................................... 37 Theoretical Framework ........................................................................................... 44 2 “RECOMMENDED FOR PURCHASE BY EXPERT”: EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE LIBRARIANS AS EDUBROW CANON MAKERS ..... 51 The Progressives and the Free Library Movements ............................................... 53 Professional History of Publishing .......................................................................... 63 Children Gain Access to Library Reading Rooms ................................................... 68 Book Lists by Influential Librarians ......................................................................... 73 Caroline Hewins ............................................................................................... 74 Anne Carroll Moore .......................................................................................... 80 Alice Jordan ...................................................................................................... 89 Book Lists in Books .......................................................................................... 95 The Great Excluded; or, Books “Not Recommended for Purchase by Expert” ....... 96 Garden Walls: Librarians Build Professional Infrastructures in Support of Children’s Literature .......................................................................................... 109 Children’s Book Week .................................................................................... 112 The Horn Book ............................................................................................... 117 ALA Prizes: Newbery and Caldecott .............................................................. 122 The Value of the ALA Prizes .......................................................................... 131 3 HOP ON POP: THE RISE OF EARLY READER BOOKS IN A NEW AGE OF EDUCATION ......................................................................................................... 146 Education Reforms in America ............................................................................. 149 The Reading Wars ................................................................................................ 161 Early Reader Picture Books .................................................................................. 174 The Cat in the Hat .......................................................................................... 176 6 Little Bear ....................................................................................................... 183 Reading Between Blurred Lines: Instruction and Delight ............................... 189 An Expanding Market: Dividing Early Readers into Micro-niche Categories ......... 192 4 ALL FALL DOWN: THE DECLINING INFLUENCE OF LIBRARIANS AGAINST EMERGING RIVALS............................................................................................. 204 The Librarians’ “Secret Garden” Enclave .............................................................. 209 Rivalries Among Edubrow Professionals .............................................................. 230 Librarians Versus Teachers ............................................................................ 232 Librarians Versus Publishers .......................................................................... 238 Librarians Versus Booksellers ........................................................................ 242 Rivalries in Action: Anne Carroll Moore Fails to Squash Stuart Little ............. 251 5 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: THE PAPERBACK REVOLUTION AND SHIFTING MARKETS IN THE GLOBAL CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FIELD ........................ 260 Academics Take Notice of Children’s Literature ................................................... 263 The Paperback Revolution of the 1960s ............................................................... 274 Paperbacks and the Children’s Literature Market ................................................. 281 Watership Down: Canons at Cross Purposes ....................................................... 292 Watership Down: A British Prize Winner ........................................................ 293 Watership Down: An American Bestseller ...................................................... 297 Awards Versus Bestsellers: Which Prize is Most Prized? .............................. 304 6 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE COMES OF AGE: BLOCKBUSTER BOOKS AND THE YOUNG ADULT REVOLUTION.................................................................... 314 Bestsellerdom Births the Blockbuster Strategy ..................................................... 318 Conglomerates Become the Book Industry Norm ................................................. 330 Changes at the Publishing Level .................................................................... 332 Super Bookstores ........................................................................................... 336 YA Literature: Beginnings ..................................................................................... 344 Defining YA .................................................................................................... 344 The Emergence of YA Paperbacks in Britain ................................................. 349 YA Literature from 1970 to 1990s ................................................................... 355 Commercial Book Market Response to the Emerging YA Genre ................... 359 Educational Response to the Emerging YA Genre ......................................... 363 The Hunger Games as YA Blockbuster
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Children's Books & Illustrated Books
    CHILDREN’S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ALEPH-BET BOOKS, INC. 85 OLD MILL RIVER RD. POUND RIDGE, NY 10576 (914) 764 - 7410 CATALOGUE 109 ALEPH - BET BOOKS - TERMS OF SALE Helen and Marc Younger 85 Old Mill River Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 10576 phone 914-764-7410 fax 914-764-1356 www.alephbet.com Email - [email protected] POSTAGE: UNITED STATES. 1st book $8.00, $2.00 for each additional book. OVERSEAS shipped by air at cost. PAYMENTS: Due with order. Libraries and those known to us will be billed. PHONE orders 9am to 10pm e.s.t. Phone Machine orders are secure. CREDIT CARDS: VISA, Mastercard, American Express. Please provide billing address. RETURNS - Returnable for any reason within 1 week of receipt for refund less shipping costs provided prior notice is received and items are shipped fastest method insured VISITS welcome by appointment. We are 1 hour north of New York City near New Canaan, CT. Our full stock of 8000 collectible and rare books is on view and available. Not all of our stock is on our web site COVER ILLUSTRATION - #377 - Beatrix Potter Original Art done for Anne Carroll Moore #328 - Velveteen Rabbit - 1st in dw #305 - Rare Cold War moveable #127 - First Mickey Mouse book #253 - Lawson Ferdinand drawing sgd by Leaf #254 - Ferdinand 1st edition signed in dw Helen & Marc Younger Pg 3 [email protected] ABC MANUSCRIPT WITH BOOK, DRAWINGS AND DUMMY RARE TUCK RAG 1. ABC.ABC MANUSCRIPT. Offered here is a fantastic group of items comprising “BLACK” ABC the various phases of the development of a book from rough dummy to published work.
    [Show full text]
  • Proquest Administrator Module User Guide Table of Contents
    ProQuest Administrator Module User Guide Table of Contents 1. Getting Started 1.1. Getting Started .............................................................................................................................. 3 2. User Interface 2.1. User Interface Main Page .............................................................................................................. 5 2.2. Interface Settings............................................................................................................................ 5 2.3. Branding.......................................................................................................................................... 8 2.4. Create a ProQuest Login URL ...................................................................................................... 8 2.5. Customize Subject Areas/Customize Industries ............................................................................ 9 3. Usage Reports 3.1. Usage Reports Introduction ........................................................................................................ 10 3.2. Request Usage Reports................................................................................................................ 10 3.3. Scheduled Usage Reports .......................................................................................................... 11 4. Linking In/Out 4.1. Linking In/Out Introduction .......................................................................................................... 12 4.2.
    [Show full text]
  • E HUT Hutchins, Pat, 1942-. the Doorbell Rang. 1St Ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, C1986
    E HUT Hutchins, Pat, 1942-. The doorbell rang. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986. FIC HUT Hutton, Clare. Midnight howl. New York : Scholastic, c2011. E HYD Hyde, Judith Jensen, 1947-. Rainy-day music. New York : Children's Press, c2006. 974.9 HYM Hyman, Teresa L. New Jersey. San Diego : Detroit : Kidhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2004. TR HYS Hysom, Dennis Joe, 1949-. Wooleycat's musical theater. Santa Rosa, CA : Tortuga Press, c2003. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The great ghost rescue. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2002. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The haunting of Granite Falls. New York : Puffin, 2005, c1987. FIC IBB Mission Valley Elementary Bibliography Report 12/6/2011 @ 2:55pm Page 326 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ibbotson, Eva. Island of the aunts. New York : Puffin, 2001. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. Dial-a-ghost. New York : Puffin Books, 2003, c1996. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The beasts of Clawstone Castle. New York : Puffin Books, 2007. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The Star of Kazan. New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2004. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The dragonfly pool. New York : Puffin Books, 2009, c2008. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the river sea. New York : Puffin, 2003. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. Not just a witch. New York : Puffin Books, 2004. FIC IBB Ibbotson, Eva. The Ogre of Oglefort. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2011. E ICH Ichikawa, Satomi. My pig Amarillo. 1st American ed. New York : Philomel Books, 2003. 641.597 ICH Ichord, Loretta Frances. Skillet bread, sourdough, and vinegar pie : cooking in pioneer days. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c2003.
    [Show full text]
  • Margaret Wise Brown and Bedtime Parody Sand
    Lunar Perturbations – How Did We Get from Goodnight Moon to Go the F**k to Sleep?: Margaret Wise Brown and Bedtime Parody Sandy Hudock Colorado State University-Pueblo From an Audi commercial to celebrating the end of the second Bush presidency to the ghost of Mama Cass presiding over a dead Keith Moon, to the ubiquity of the iPad, Good Night Moon has been and no doubt will continue to be parodied or invoked for generations to come. Songwriters reference it, the television show The Wire gives an urban twist to its constant refrain of “good night-----“ with “good night, po-pos, good night hoppers, good night hustlers…” What makes this story so much a part of the collective consciousness, a veritable cultural meme? How did Margaret Wise Brown’s life and her influence in children's publishing result in the longstanding enchantment of Good Night Moon? Recent political and cultural parodies of the go to bed genre all ultimately hearken back to this one simple story painted in green and orange, and the intrinsic comfort it provides to children as a go to bed ritual. Born in New York in 1910 to a wealthy family, Brown was a middle child whose parents’ many moves within the Long Island area required that she change schools four times while growing up, including a stint at a Swiss boarding school. As a child, she made up stories (in her family, a polite way of saying she told lies) and then challenged her siblings to look up the answers in the multi-volume Book of Knowledge, for which she later penned two entries on writing for small children.
    [Show full text]
  • Kids, Libraries, and LEGO® Great Programming, Great Collaborations
    Children the journal of the Association for Library Service to Children Libraries & Volume 10 Number 3 Winter 2012 ISSN 1542-9806 Kids, Libraries, and LEGO® Great Programming, Great Collaborations Playing with Poetry PERMIT NO. 4 NO. PERMIT Change Service Requested Service Change HANOVER, PA HANOVER, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Illinois Chicago, PAID 50 East Huron Street Huron East 50 U.S. POSTAGE POSTAGE U.S. Association for Library Service to Children to Service Library for Association NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT Table Contents● ofVolume 10, Number 3 Winter 2012 Notes 28 Louisa May Alcott The Author as Presented in 2 Editor’s Note Biographies for Children Sharon Verbeten Hilary S. Crew 36 More than Just Books Features Children’s Literacy in Today’s Digital Information World 3 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Denise E. Agosto Reading in the Dark 41 Peter Sís From Board to Cloth and Back Again 9 C Is for Cooperation A Preliminary Exploration of Board Books Public and School Library Allison G. Kaplan Reciprocal Responsibility in Community Literacy Initiatives 45 Play to Learn Janet Amann and Sabrina Carnesi Free Tablet Apps and Recommended Toys for Ages 3-7 14 He Said, She Said Hayley Elece McEwing How the Storytime Princess and the Computer Dude Came Together to Create a Real-Life Fairytale Shawn D. Walsh and Melanie A. Lyttle Departments 17 The People on the Bus . 35 Author Guidelines Louisiana Program Targets Community Literacy 40 Call for Referees Jamie Gaines 52 Children and Technology 20 Brick by Brick Here to Stay ® LEGO -Inspired Programs in the Library Mobile Technology and Young Tess Prendergast Children in the Library Amy Graves 24 Carnegie Award Acceptance Speeches 55 School-Age Programs and Services Bringing Lucille to Life Kick Start Your Programming! Melissa Reilly Ellard and Paul R.
    [Show full text]
  • Editorial Literacy:Reconsidering Literary Editing As Critical Engagement in Writing Support
    St. John's University St. John's Scholar Theses and Dissertations 2020 Editorial Literacy:Reconsidering Literary Editing as Critical Engagement in Writing Support Anna Cairney Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.stjohns.edu/theses_dissertations Part of the Creative Writing Commons EDITORIAL LITERACY: RECONSIDERING LITERARY EDITING AS CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN WRITING SUPPORT A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY to the faculty in the department of ENGLISH of ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES at ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY New York by Anna Cairney Date Submitted: 1/27/2020 Date Approved: 1/27/2020 __________________________________ __________________________________ Anna Cairney Derek Owens, D.A. © Copyright by Anna Cairney 2020 All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT EDITORIAL LITERACY: RECONSIDERING LITERARY EDITING AS CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN WRITING SUPPORT Anna Cairney Editing is usually perceived in the pejorative within in the literature of composition studies generally, and specifically in writing center studies. Regardless if the Writing Center serves mostly undergraduates or graduates, the word “edit” has largely evolved to a narrow definition of copyediting or textual cleanup done by the author at the end of the writing process. Inversely, in trade publishing, editors and agents work with writers at multiple stages of production, providing editorial feedback in the form of reader’s reports and letters. Editing is a rich, intellectual skill of critically engaging with another’s text. What are the implications of differing literacies of editing for two fields dedicated to writing production? This dissertation examines the editorial practices of three leading 20th century editors: Maxwell Perkins, Katharine White, and Ursula Nordstrom.
    [Show full text]
  • 4–9–02 Vol. 67 No. 68 Tuesday April 9, 2002 Pages 16969–17278
    4–9–02 Tuesday Vol. 67 No. 68 April 9, 2002 Pages 16969–17278 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 22:30 Apr 08, 2002 Jkt 197001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4710 Sfmt 4710 E:\FR\FM\09APWS.LOC pfrm04 PsN: 09APWS 1 II Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 68 / Tuesday, April 9, 2002 The FEDERAL REGISTER is published daily, Monday through SUBSCRIPTIONS AND COPIES Friday, except official holidays, by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, PUBLIC Washington, DC 20408, under the Federal Register Act (44 U.S.C. Subscriptions: Ch. 15) and the regulations of the Administrative Committee of Paper or fiche 202–512–1800 the Federal Register (1 CFR Ch. I). The Superintendent of Assistance with public subscriptions 202–512–1806 Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 is the exclusive distributor of the official edition. General online information 202–512–1530; 1–888–293–6498 Single copies/back copies: The Federal Register provides a uniform system for making available to the public regulations and legal notices issued by Paper or fiche 202–512–1800 Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Assistance with public single copies 1–866–512–1800 Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general (Toll-Free) applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published FEDERAL AGENCIES by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest. Subscriptions: Paper or fiche 202–523–5243 Documents are on file for public inspection in the Office of the Federal Register the day before they are published, unless the Assistance with Federal agency subscriptions 202–523–5243 issuing agency requests earlier filing.
    [Show full text]
  • Leveled Books by Reading Level
    A Curly and His Friends Tony Mitton Rigby A Do You Want to Be My Friend? Eric Carle Scholastic A Friends Lesly Wing Jan Rigby A Goodnight Bobbie Alison Hawes Rigby A I Like Gay Su Pinnell Scholastic A Look! Now Look! Jan Pritchett Rigby A Scaredy Cat Fay Robinson Rigby A School Gay Su Pinnell Scholastic A That's Mine! Claire Llewllyn Rigby A Things Birds Eat, The Betrey Chessen Scholastic A Time for School Maria Fleming A We Are Playing Jan Pritchett Rigby B Big and Little Jacob Cesaro Rigby B Bobbie and the Monster Monica Hughes Rigby B Bobbie and the Parade Monica Hughes Rigby B Curly Finds a Home Tony Mitton Rigby B Curly Is Hungry Tony Mitton Rigby B Eat It, Print It Stephanie Varnali Rigby B Explore in a Cave Dana Meachen Rau Abrams and Company B Gifts for Everyone Claire Llewllyn Rigby B Going Shopping Alison Hawes Rigby B Have You Seen My Cat? Eric Carle Scholastic B I Like Dogs Barbara Mitchelhill Rigby B Juggling Alison Hawes Rigby B Max Gets Ready Fay Robinson Rigby B Mixing Colors Isabel Bissett Rigby B Monster Soup Paul Shipton Rigby B Mud! Charnan Simon Houghton Mifflin B Ned's Noise Machine Monica Hughes Rigby B Pet Vet, The Marcia Leonard Houghton Mifflin B Playhouse, The Monica Hughes Rigby B Shells Coral White Rigby B Wash Day Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz Scholastic B What Can You See? Simon Browne Rigby B What Is It? Fay Robinson Rigby B What's in the Box? Nancy Ianni Rigby B Where Is Eric? Anne Bauers Rigby B Who Lives in a Tree? Susan Canizares Scholastic B Wings Paloma Kennedey Rigby C At Last! Alison Hawes Rigby C Baby
    [Show full text]
  • Fire in the Mountains| Campesino and Natural Resource Manager Perspectives on Agro-Pastoral Burning and Forest Fires in Honduras
    University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 2002 Fire in the mountains| Campesino and natural resource manager perspectives on agro-pastoral burning and forest fires in Honduras Dale Gregory Woitas The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Woitas, Dale Gregory, "Fire in the mountains| Campesino and natural resource manager perspectives on agro-pastoral burning and forest fires in Honduras" (2002). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 2354. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2354 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Maureen and Mike MANSFIELD LIBRARY The University of Montana Permission is granted by the author to reproduce this material in its entirety, provided that this material is used for scholarly purposes and is properly cited in published works and reports. **Please check "Yes" or "No" and provide signature Yes, I grant permission J No, I do not grant permission Author's Signature: Date: Z3 200Z Any copying for commercial purposes or financial gain may be undertaken only with the author's explicit consent. MSThesissMansneid Library Permission Fire in the Mountains: Campesino and natural resource manager perspectives on agro-pastoral burning and forest fires in Honduras by Dale Gregory Woitas B.S.
    [Show full text]
  • World of Words
    women in the world of words A chronological vignette drawn from the archives for the fiftieth anniversary of the WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION New York. New York - October 24, 1967 FIRST PRINTING Copyright @ 1967, by the Women's National Book Association The format and illustration material were planned and prepared by A. Albert Freeman, Resident, Visualart Associates. Inc. The typefaces for the text were selected and composed by Fmda Brome. Printed by the New York Lithographing Corporation, New York The WNBA wishes to thank the following for their wntribution: RR Bowker Company for material from their filer HMmond lnwrpornted for the design and preparation of the cover map. Auto Screen Print, Inc, division of The Lehigh Reas, Inc. for printing the cover. The Columbia Mills, Inc for the Tannlin wver material. Fairchild Publications, Inc for Fdions 1917-1967. Women's National Book Association Domthy M. McKittrick, Resident New Ywk Chapter WOMEN IN THE WORLD OF WORDS No Amen'cm town is too small, no country too remote, for the bookwoman to become a member of the Women'sNationaIBook Associntion - f~omWNBA archives Pauline C. Shenvwd OUR CREED. The purpose of this Association shall be to coordinate all the related inreresrs which have to do with the making and distributing of books. Believing that it is impossible to isolate any single insfmmentalify m the great merial cinulation of thought, this Association is created to include in a shgle working body, women writers, women booksellers, women m'tics, women editors, women libmrizns, and women advertisers, t~- gether with women employed in the printing and bmkmaking trades and in publishing houses, as a mmns of education to more consciarsness in owselves and as an organized power to jitrthm in every instance of which we can make use, the freer movement of life and huth.
    [Show full text]
  • A Narrative of Augusta Baker's Early Life and Her Work As a Children's Librarian Within the New York Public Library System B
    A NARRATIVE OF AUGUSTA BAKER’S EARLY LIFE AND HER WORK AS A CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN WITHIN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM BY REGINA SIERRA CARTER DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy Studies in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor James Anderson, Chair Professor Anne Dyson Professor Violet Harris Associate Professor Yoon Pak ABSTRACT Augusta Braxston Baker (1911-1998) was a Black American librarian whose tenure within the New York Public Library (NYPL) system lasted for more than thirty years. This study seeks to shed light upon Baker’s educational trajectory, her career as a children’s librarian at NYPL’s 135th Street Branch, her work with Black children’s literature, and her enduring legacy. Baker’s narrative is constructed through the use of primary source materials, secondary source materials, and oral history interviews. The research questions which guide this study include: 1) How did Baker use what Yosso described as “community cultural wealth” throughout her educational trajectory and time within the NYPL system? 2) Why was Baker’s bibliography on Black children’s books significant? and 3) What is her lasting legacy? This study uses historical research to elucidate how Baker successfully navigated within the predominantly White world of librarianship and established criteria for identifying non-stereotypical children’s literature about Blacks and Black experiences. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Philippians 4:13 New Living Translation (NLT) ”For I can do everything through Christ,[a] who gives me strength.” I thank GOD who is my Everything.
    [Show full text]
  • Special Edition Podcast: Robert Mccloskey
    PODCAST TRANSCRIPT SPECIAL EDITION PODCAST: ROBERT MCCLOSKEY Sarah Mackenzie: 00:00 This is a special edition of the Read-Aloud Revival Podcast. Some authors and illustrators deserve, well, extra attention. If you see their books on a bookshelf, at a garage sale, at the library, and pretty much anywhere, you should just pick them up and read them, read them on your own, read them to the kids in your life. No matter which book it is. And the authors and illustrators behind these kinds of books fascinate me. In this special edition podcast we're meeting the man behind Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, Homer Price, and others. Yes, indeed. You've got a special edition of the Read-Aloud Revival. I'm your host, Sarah Mackenzie, and friends, I want to introduce you to Robert McCloskey. Sarah Mackenzie: 01:22 Mr. And Mrs. Mallard we're looking for a place to live, but every time Mr. Mallard saw what looked like a nice place, Mrs. Mallard said it was no good. There were sure to be foxes in the woods or turtles in the water. And she was not going to raise a family where there might be foxes or turtles. So they flew on and on. When they got to Boston, they felt too tired to fly any further. There was a nice pond in the public garden with a little island on it, "The very place to spend the night", quacked Mr. Mallard. So down they flapped.
    [Show full text]