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Milestone Monday
The King's Hares, from Norway
The Princess with the Twelve Pair of Golden Shoes, from Denmark
Queen Crane, from Sweden
The Rooster, the Hand Mill and the Swarm of Hornets, from Sweden
Ti-Tirit-Ti, from Italy
The Adventures of Bona and Nello, from Italy
The Hedgehog Who Became a Prince, from Poland
The Flight, from Poland
April 1st is the birthday of American librarian and storyteller Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998). Born to two schoolteachers in Baltimore, Baker was a voracious student who read at a young age and careened through elementary and high school. With advocacy support from Eleanor Roosevelt, Baker was admitted to the Albany Teacher’s College and in 1934 earned a B. A. in Education and a B. S. in Library Science making her the first African American to earn a librarianship degree from the college.
In 1939, Baker went on to work as the children’s librarian at New York Public Library’s Harlem branch, founding the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Children’s Books to showcase representation of Black children and life in books, and beginning a lifelong career with children’s literature and the New York Public Library (NYPL). In 1953, she was appointed Storytelling Specialist and Assistant Coordinator of Children’s Services, quickly moving into the Coordinator of Children’s Services position years later and becoming the first African American to hold an administrative position with NYPL. Throughout her career, Baker was active with the American Library Association, and chaired committees for the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal recognizing excellence in children’s literature.
In celebration of Baker’s birthday, we’re sharing The Golden Lynx and Other Tales, a collection of international folk tales compiled by Baker and illustrated by Austrian artist Johannes Troyer (1902-1969). This is the first edition of the book published in 1960 by J. B. Lippincott and is signed by Baker, who writes in the introduction, “No story has been included in this collection that has not stood the supreme test of the children’s interest and approval”.
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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern
#Augusta Braxton Baker#Milestone Monday#The Golden Lynx and Other Tales#Johannes Troyer#J.B. Lippincott#New York Public Library#American Library Association#Newberry Medal#Caldecott Medal#Historical Curriculum Collection#birthdays
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1911
Baltimore
[spoken by a child and then a servant in an affluent home]
" '...I don't believe you're eighteen years old. You played with my dollhouse, didn't you?'
I had, actually....I'll admit it: I've never seen anything like that dollhouse. It's four feet tall, with three floors full of perfect miniature furniture: needlepoint carpets, and cunning little chairs upholstered in striped silk...I could never have imagined such an elaborate and expensive toy. If it had been mine - when I was little, I mean - I'd have kept it in apple-pie order....
...well, I guess it was silly, I cut up a tiny section of Malka's Yiddish newspaper so the papa doll could have something to read....After that - well, I allow myself one little change per day. Once I put the baby doll in the bathtub, with the mother kneeling next to him - I rolled up her sleeves to the elbows. Another time, I made the china cat sleep on top of the piano...."
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
I loved and recommend the book I'm quoting from, but for the moment, I wanted to riff a little bit about dollhouses and small miniatures.
Despite the pictures of my AG characters with dollhouse figures here, neither Rebecca (1914) nor Kit (1934) were from wealthy enough families to have had dollhouses. From my googling, it sounds like they didn't become affordable to the middle class until the late 1940s and 1950s.
One thing I wonder about is why I've taken back up doll collecting and miniatures in my middle age. I've enjoyed this hobby in the ways described in the excerpt - looking forward to making a tiny newspaper or putting characters into a storyline.
I might have come to this hobby anyway - my mom also likes dolls and miniatures. Also, an idea I've read that resonates in my own situation is that a dollhouse gives me some control. Someone in my life had things really go off the rails during the pandemic. I'm not going to be specific here, but I made repeated efforts to help that came to naught. It is healing for me to have a nook in the utility room where there will be a cozy home with a new rug or a newspaper if I want.
Among things I have no control over is the weather. Last picture here is rain!!
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noooo i didn't know when i read it as a kid that the ear, the eye and the arm was by a white woman in the peace corps with an extremely evangelical worldview... well that explains the weird tone.
we've got all the classics: a heavy focus on child marriage, lots of casual mention of suffering and death and a delight in describing the dirty yucky ugliness of poverty and vice but also like, a very shaky understanding of interpersonal dynamics in the real world or how anyone socializes outside of church or the army or heterosexual marriage. lots of bizarre and dehumanizing descriptions of people's bodies. fear of automation but even worse fear of any traditional knowledge outside of white christianity. writing about authority that betrays a deep longing to escape it but a complete terror at the thought of personal agency. creepy imprinting on babies. weird shit about christmas. and no chicken pox vaccine 200 years in the future
#oh she also did house of the scorpion#newberry medal for traumatizing elementary schoolers#txt#books
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The best simaly i ever read was in a short story in which a dragon breaths fire on people. the author wrote: they were burning on the outside, but cold on the inside, like microwaved lasagna.
immaculate line, i wish i could remember the author
#short story#fantasy#microwaved lasagna#writing#hilarious#fantastic writing like#that simaly alone deserved a newberry medal
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my story about daniel day lewis drinking water will win the newberry medal
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Reviewing your own writing like. Well. this is complete shit. shit. shit. more shit. How did I even think this was a good idea at the time. Bad attempt at being funny. Okay that actually was kind of funny. Shit. shit. This is the greatest thing anyone has written ever and I should be awarded a Newberry Medal for it alone. More complete shit.
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The Venn diagram of white people who only watch children's media bc media should only exist for escapism or else it's bad and the world is too harsh to watch anything else bc all adult movies are about sex and violence VERSUS white people who think any children's books about hard topics like racism and death should be banned from schools until after university bc they're too scary for kids to be exposed to before the adult age of 25 with a particular vendetta against Newberry Medal books is a circle tbh
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Donbrothers, Episode 35!
Ohhhhh boy! Just got off the train from Oishi-Na Town! Time to visit my friend Tsubasa in Donbura County Jail. And uh... well, my good buddy Jirou is in immense pain so, I wanna check on him too. Going all over the place today, huh? Please stand behind the white line! We're departing on a train ride towards pain!
Spoilers, I guess...
-Well, at least you're not having a massive rampage, right Tsuyoshi?
-It's OUR power, boys!
-"Kijino, you're really making an annoying racket stirring your coffee like that."
-"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO YOU SON OF A BITCH, I PAID FOR THIS DRINK!"
-"Hey man, chill, you don't gotta yell at him like that-"
-"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU INSUFFERABLE LITTLE OTAKU BRAT I DIDN'T WORK FOR 10 YEARS TO BE BOSSED AROUND BY A LITTLE ONI PUNK!"
-"Jesus Christ, what's gotten into you"
-"OHHHHHH LOOK AT ME, I'M A FREELOADER, I'M GONNA WRITE A HAIKU TO PAY MY BILLS!
Lies high as the palms
Bananas within reach
Monkey gets free lunch!"
EAT MY ENTIRE ASS YOU APE!"
-How many takes do you think it took to get that rant right?
-Ohhhhhh, Shinichi jbk;hjg
-Hello Auntie Yuriko.
-"He's hot" OH MY GOD how does Haruka rein you in?
-Ohhhhh, there's something with Auntie Yuriko isn't there
-"Ah fuck, he has a girlfriend already"
-...I get really bad vibes off of auntie Yuriko.
-Miho Spotted.
-Oh no
-Aaaand, we're in jail!
-Jail time with the homie.
-"So like... do you want 500000 yen?"
-"Nah, you... you can keep it, I don't really need that kinda money."
-"Ah... so this means... YOU'RE REFUSING A RANSOM! C'MERE YOU SON OF A BITCH"
-Free doggy!
-Kito, please stop that, I'm pretty sure fraternizing with suspects under interrogation is a violation of the law.
-Ah, who am I kidding, that's not gonna stop her.
-Ohhhhhhhhh, she hit you with the whammy.
-"Go investigate your girlfriend! If you get us results, we'll let you go free!"
-Murasame's just sitting there, huh?
-Yeah just seal him up a little, he'll be fine
-Oh hey, Rumi-chan, right? You're Jirou's ladyfriend.
-Alright, my boy's getting focus!
-JIROU HJKHK
-Natsumi rehearsal!
-Very solid delivery
-Proposal!
-Wan-derful!
-Oh... hello Sononi! There's a really funny case of some poor kid unable to confess his love happening in Oishi-Na Town if you wanna come with me next time!
-"Oh, that boy's gonna die. Old Yeller's got nothing on this dog tragedy. I'll be sure to hand his friends a posthumous Newberry medal."
-Having a midlife crisis so soon?
-Hmm... what is that thing... he seems to be a physics major, so... perhaps he's one of the more science-y sentai. That's a red bird of prey for his face. Yellow beast with tusks... or fangs? And those blue... rubbery shoulders he's got... Ohhhhh, I get it now! This guy must be our Liveman rep.
-A toast~! For the most~!
-Naptime!
-Hello Jin!
-Just send him away like that, huh?
-"Ahhhhh, so you're the guy who made him a psycho. Good job, dingus."
-Hmm... found a new form of dimensional travel, huh? Do you think perhaps they cut through the CooKingdom?
-"Menkai wa wata."
-Natsumi? Ohhhhhhh, a crane.
-Fuck
-Y'know Momoi, I think whenever somebody acts even slightly weird around you, you should assume
-"Are you okay, Pheasant Guy?"
"FUCK YOU HARUKA YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM"
-Sloooooow motion!
-Party Time!
-Too fast, too strong!
-Ohhhh, Avatar Change!
-Now transforming! Get your ass on the dance floor behind the white line!
-Aaaaaaaaalll aboard!
-Hyper ToQ Momo-gou! Hyper ToQ Momo-gou!
-Gotta admit, I'm actually kind of a fan of this idea that Momoi's so up in his own hype that he just... slaps his own super form onto another Sentai's Red.
-Alright, Jirou!
-Stop sniffing your girlfriend and lie down!
-...yeah, like that, thank you for listening.
-Got a ToQ Blaster and the Rail Slasher, badass.
-Awww, I wanted to see more.
-Darkness of youth!
-Kimochiiiii!
-Ore koso only one da.
-Youth stuff!
-Let's fly!
-Take that power!
-Matsuri da matsuri da!
-Donbros Utopia!
-Yeah, good luck with that, Mister! Have fun!
-BRUH
-Juto Suck
-"Nooooo :("
-And he just got eaten!
-Fuck!
-Oh God, where is this
-That poor Anoni lady :(
-Oh...
-Ohhhhhh this is the lion's den.
-Jesus fucking Christ, what on earth is happening
-Why is this so horrifying
-Inoue? Tasaki? Shirakura-P? Anybody?
-What the fuck guys, what is happening?
-Ohhhhhhhh that's not good.
-That's not good at all.
-Ramen! Deliciousmile~!
-Oh, that poor chef, he's going through this again.
-That's not our dog, that's a really fucked up cat!
-Uh... hang tight, Tsubasa! We'll save you!
-Next episode that is, Happy Halloween buddy!
#don! don! it's a full force peachy festival!#donbrothers spoilers#avataro sentai donbrothers#donbrothers#momo monday
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i was doing one of my elaborate one sided improv things with my mom because we were talking about how much we hate LEDs (one of our street lamps burnt out and they replaced it with a disgustingly purple LED that makes everything look distorted and is so bright it has beams coming out of it that look like alien abduction things) and I was like "I hate LEDs so much I hate them so much die LED death to LED" and my mom was like "we should watch death to smoochie" and I said "we should watch death to LED" and she said "death to smoochies got robin williams" and I said "death to LEDs got me and uh, Jack black. I play jack black, jack black plays jim carrey, and Jim Carrey is not in the movie. it's an unfinished cycle. it's a metaphor for bisexuality" and my mom asked what it was about. I said "well, it's sort of Avant Garde. me and Jack black have big baseball bats, huge. we are in a dark room or perhaps an empty street and there is an LED in the middle between us. there's a light shining on us, like from the heavens. we start beating the shit out of this LED. it's uh, 45. hours." and she said "that long? it doesn't sound like it has any plot development" and I said "au contrere, there's a lot of plot development, all of it is in the symbolism, cinematography, metaphors, etc. at one point we go into some guys house and just take an LED bulb and destroy it there. most bulbs come from God? or something they just sorta fall down and we break them. won the newberry medal." and it had gotten so ridiculous at this point that I couldn't go on any further and just started laughing so so so hard
#I'm so good at typing im so good at typing (←has to type very very slowly so that they can write readably#tadhg talks
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NEWBERRY MEDAL WINNERS Frame from an early Peanuts comic that I've always liked, despite it being so unlike the future of the strip. The unusual comics were cleaned and enlarged using Zyro.com #color #colors #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #digitalcollage #digitalcollageart #digitalart #capitalistneoexpressionism #techspressionism #digitalgrunge #repetition #neopop #dust #digitalnoise #peanuts #vintagecomics #precodecomics #seductionoftheinnocent #glitchlabapp https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce_YSPyuiTf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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new romance novel idea: in a world full of gay people. you're gay. and so is your crush. and you both have gay sex together. newberry medal winner
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First Sergeant Robert A. Pinn (March 1, 1843 - January 1, 1911) was an attorney and Civil War hero who received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln. He was born free to William and Zilphia Broxton-Pinn, in Stark County, Ohio. His father William Pinn escaped from slavery and fled to Ohio at the age of eighteen. He worked on farms for several years before marrying Zilphia Broxton, a white resident of Stark County. He and his nine siblings were born on the family farm in Stark County. He married Emily J. Manzilla, in 1867, and the couple had one child.
He attempted to join the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War but was blocked from enlisting because of his race. He joined the 19th Ohio Infantry in 1861 as a civilian worker, marched south with the regiment, and despite his non-military status, fought at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee in 1862. He fought in several other engagements although not as an enlisted soldier. President Abraham Lincoln authorized the use of African American troops in combat after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. He joined the 5th United States Colored Troop, Infantry Regiment in Massillon, Ohio, on September 5, 1863.
He was promoted to Sergeant on October 18, 1863, just over a month after he joined the regiment. He was promoted to First Sergeant on September 1, 1864. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroic action at The Battle of New Market Heights. He took command of his company after all the officers had been killed or wounded.
He studied at Oberlin College (1874-77). He taught school in Cairo, Illinois, and Newberry, South Carolina. He returned to Ohio and Oberlin where he completed his law studies, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1879, becoming the first African American lawyer in Massillon County.
He had a distinguished career as an attorney and a Pensions and Claims Agent for the US Pension Bureau. He was active in the Republican Party where he served as a delegate to the 1891 Ohio convention. He was the first African American Commander of Hart Post 134 of the Grand Army of the Republic. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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Dave Eggers describes himself as “the author of many books.” And indeed he is. His works include The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, and What is the What, just to name a few. Not to mention being the recipient of more literary awards than you can shake a proverbial stick at.
Needless to say he created quite a buzz, despite his unpretentious manner, for elated literacy educators from across the country when he appeared at this year’s NCTE conference to sign his new all-ages novel, and winner of the John Newberry Medal, The Eyes & The Impossible.
And, it isn’t surprising that our conversation turned to the recent surge in banned books… or that Mr. Eggers graciously gave permission for This Book is Banned to share a link to the following article he wrote about his encounter with book banning.
https://thisbookisbanned.com/banned/eggers-anatomy-of-a-book-banning/
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Forget your sign, what was the Newberry Medal winner the year you were born?
#newbery medal#newbery award#books#children's books#literature#i work at a public library#(mine is Missing May by Rylant fwiw)
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 1985 Vintage Sarah Plain And Tall By Patricia Maclachlan Soft Cover.
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