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The next best thing to an extended visit to the de Grummond Collection, this handsomely illustrated volume introduces readers to a generous cross-section of the Collection's major holdings, with concise, authoritative category-by-category commentaries sure to pique the interest of researchers, nostalgia buffs, and everyone in between.--Leonard S. Marcus, children's book historian, critic, and editor This book reveals the significance of the de Grummond Collection and, as such, yet undiscovered and untapped historical insights. I've studied children's literature nearly twenty years and knew the collection was extensive, but until I read this, I had no idea how extensive.--Susan Stewart, Texas A&M University-Commerce

A handsome introduction to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi--Roger Sutton Horn Book Magazine The next best thing to an extended visit to the de Grummond Collection, this handsomely illustrated volume introduces readers to a generous cross-section of the Collection's major holdings, with concise, authoritative category-by-category commentaries sure to pique the interest of researchers, nostalgia buffs, and everyone in between.--Leonard S. Marcus, children's book historian, critic, and editor This book reveals the significance of the de Grummond Collection and, as such, yet undiscovered and untapped historical insights. I've studied children's literature nearly twenty years and knew the collection was extensive, but until I read this, I had no idea how extensive.--Susan Stewart, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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Carolyn J. Brown is a retired teacher, writer, editor, and independent scholar. She is author of The Artist's Sketch: A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark and the award-winning biographies A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty and Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Find her at www.carolynjbrown.net. Ellen Hunter Ruffin, associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, has been curator of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection since 2006. She has served on the Newbery Medal Committee, the Children's Literature Legacy Award Committee, and the Schneider Family Book Award Committee, among others. Eric L. Tribunella is professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches children's and young adult literature. He is author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature; coauthor of Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction; and editor of Edward Prime-Stevenson's Left to Themselves.

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