The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter

Originally distributed in print by University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-1-5179-0801-0. Electronically distributed by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.For fourteen months beginning in June 2013, the New York Public Library hosted an exhibition about the role of children’s books in world culture and in our lives. Now with this book, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota’s Kerlan Collection of Children’s Literature and children’s literature historian Leonard Marcus, the nostalgia and vision of that exhibit can be experienced anywhere