{"id":2310,"date":"2013-06-26T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2013-06-26T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T02:01:39","slug":"2310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2013\/06\/26\/2310\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Public Library Exhibit: Why Children&#8217;s Books Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/nursery-rhymes-of-england-hawthorne-copy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2311\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/nursery-rhymes-of-england-hawthorne-copy1-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/nursery-rhymes-of-england-hawthorne-copy1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2013\/06\/nursery-rhymes-of-england-hawthorne-copy1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From\u00a0<em>Flavorwire:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last Friday, an essential exhibit for book lovers and onetime children of all stripes opened at the New York Public Library:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/events\/exhibitions\/abc-it\" target=\"_blank\">The ABC Of It: Why Children\u2019s Books Matter<\/a>. Within, you can find the copy of\u00a0Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland\u00a0that belonged to Alice Liddell, a recording of E.B. White reading from\u00a0Charlotte\u2019s Web, Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s family copy of\u00a0Mother Goose, complete with annotations on which sections were too scary for the children, the original\u00a0Winnie-the-Pooh\u00a0stuffed animals, and more delights. Take a look at some of the treasures the exhibit has to offer after the jump, and head on up to the NYPL to see the show in person before it closes next March.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And below the link to some images of books on display. \u00a0My favorite is Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s family copy of <em>Nursery Rhymes of England<\/em>. \u00a0If you enlarge the page by clicking it, you will find, among other annotations, that &#8220;the miller did swear&#8221; is crossed out and replaced with &#8220;the miller declared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/400174\/lewis-carrolls-letter-to-alice-liddell-and-other-artifacts-from-the-nypls-childrens-books-exhibition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Flavorwire: Last Friday, an essential exhibit for book lovers and onetime children of all stripes opened at the New York Public Library:\u00a0The ABC Of It: Why Children\u2019s Books Matter. Within, you can find the copy of\u00a0Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland\u00a0that belonged to Alice Liddell, a recording of E.B. White reading from\u00a0Charlotte\u2019s Web, Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s family copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}