BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"\;Containing Chaos: Curating the Historical Children's Books at the Cotsen Children's Library."\; - Dr Andrea Immel\, Curator of th e Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University DTSTART:20130514T160000Z DTEND:20130514T180000Z UID:TALK45165@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nThe Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton Unive rsity is a major historical collection of rare illustrated children's book s\, manuscripts\, original artwork\, prints\, and educational toys from th e 15th century to the present day in over thirty languages. The collection has important holdings of materials in the English\, Chinese\, Czech\, Du tch\, French\, German\, Greek\, Hebrew\, Italian\, Japanese\, Latin\, and Russian languages. Among the collection's treasures are an early-Coptic Ch ristian schoolbook\; medieval manuscripts\; two scrapbooks assembled by Ha ns Christian Andersen\; drawings by Edward Lear\, K. F. E. Freyhold\, and Samuil Marshak\; many of Beatrix Potter's famous picture letters\; early e ditions of the fairy tales of Madame d'Aulnoy\, Charles Perrault\, and the brothers Grimm\; one of the largest collections of children's books publi shed by John Newbery and his successors\; Soviet Constructivist children's books\; American dime novels\, moveable books\; jigsaw puzzles\; and educ ational playing cards. The talk will provide an informal introduction to s ome of the jewels in the collection and will reflect on the delights and c hallenges of curating some of the world’s most precious early children ’s books and toys.\n\n*Bio*\n\nAndrea Immel is the Curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library and a leading specialist in early children’s liter ature. She has published numerous books and articles on the subject\, incl uding\, most recently\, Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Eur ope\, 1550-1800 (2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literatur e (2010). At the Cotsen\, Andrea organizes academic programs and exhibitio ns\, acquires new materials\, oversees the unit's publications\, and assis ts scholars doing research in the Cotsen collection. Andrea received her P h.D. from the Department of English at University of California\, Los Ange les\, with a specialization in 18th-century English Literature. She earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Occidental College (Los Angeles)\, an d an MLS degree with a specialty in Rare Book Librarianship from Columbia University's School of Library Service. Andrea has worked at the Huntingto n Library in San Marino\, CA\; the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York\; a nd the Bodleian Library in Oxford\, UK. She was personal librarian to Lloy d E. Cotsen before moving with his collection to Princeton.\n LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road \, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, room GS5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR