Library

It’s National Book Month, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story about books, and words, and the lessons they can teach us.

Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering about overdue library books.

As curator of a collection of late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century children’s books, curator Rita Smith comes across many things children have tucked into the pages of a book and forgotten about. Today, she’s here to discuss some of her findings.

As part of our ongoing exploration of how children’s books matter throughout our lives, today we’re speaking with Brother Blue, the internationally known storyteller, from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

One of the fascinating opportunities of working with a historical children’s literature collection is reading the inscriptions that people wrote in the books. Rita Smith, curator of the Baldwin Library, is here to discuss some of the inscriptions she has discovered in the collection.