"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://t.co/a9sLZCqdRI #FriendshipDay
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://t.co/Zki5D0VxVe
Conference registration: Children’s Literature and Whenua (the land)
The Biennial Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) conference
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
27-30 November 2024
Registration website: https://t.co/H3dy1qFfWG
Advanced praise for LITTLE SHREW, written and illustrated by Akiko Miyakoshi. Akiko Miyakoshi returns with a beguiling, quietly magical appreciation of life’s little pleasures. LITTLE SHREW is available now for preorders at major retailers! https://t.co/ci2hXn9Cgb
Those who decry classical education. . . can hardly conceive the sense of strength and freedom which a young and ingenuous intellect acquires in all literature . . . (Frederic Farrar and the nectar sweets of classics)
https://t.co/OekeWtIS1G #Classics
📢 ACLAR Conference CFP extended 📢
The submission date for abstracts for the 2024 ACLAR Conference has been extended to 15 March 2024.
Theme: Children’s Literature and Whenua (the land)
📍 University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand
📅 27-30 Nov 2024
https://t.co/D17Wx82KOB
Join us for the ACLAR Lunchtime Seminar series TOMORROW!
Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (Deakin University) is presenting 'Crip worldbuilding: Representing disability in young adult speculative fiction'
📌Thursday 30/11
📌12:30 pm AEDT | 2:30 pm NZDT | 9:30 am AWST
📌https://t.co/6ADsTOAPKO
HESTIA (heh-stee-uh) was the virgin goddess of the home and hearth fire, where the families ate and congregated.
Kickstarter "Lockett Illustrated: Greek Gods and Heroes" coming in early 2024.
https://t.co/pYuqXaxUXW
#greekmythology#greekgods#ancientgreece#pjo#PercyJackson
A/Prof Liz Hale @ebrhale opening the Festival of Literary Joy @UNE_Sydney! There will be a book launch of her wonderful “Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature… An Alphabetical Odyssey” later today 🌺
A new issue of Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature has now been published!
You can access the issue here:
https://t.co/bumDtaBzks
Thank you and congratulations to Papers editors and contributors!