Mary Q. Steele. Anna’s Garden Songs. Illustrated by Lena Anderson. New York: Greenwillow, 1989. Illustrations published 1988 in Sweden. (Cotsen 2755)
Last weekend I wished I could be in one of Lena Anderson’s idyllic gardens in the Swedish countryside when the heat index climbed up to 110 in central New Jersey. It was too hot to dig for anything here…Dreaming of August’s perfect red ripe tomatoes in the shade was more like it.
Imagine wearing a sweater to go to the farmer’s market in the Princeton Junction train station this time of year… Doesn’t picking out your vegetables in your bare feet in the grass sound like heaven?
Mary Q. Steele. Anna’s Summer Songs. Illustrated by Lena Anderson. (New York: Greenwillow, 1988). Illustrations published 1984 in Sweden.
Lloyd E. Cotsen slipped away on May 8th after eighty-eight years of life lived to the fullest--digging for antiquities, selling soap in the package he designed, and flying around the world on business, which also included tracking down Japanese ikebana baskets, folk art and textiles for the corporation's art collection. Then there was the…
On Valentine’s Day, copies of our new pamphlet, “On the Road in the Cotsen Children’s Library” will be available free of charge to all gallery visitors. What’s it about? It’s about the sound of keys jingling in your pocket, putting the pedal to the metal, and moving forward. It’s a…
Songs for the Nursery (1805), one of the first four English nursery rhyme anthologies, was something of a classic by 1817. The anonymous author of the Juvenile Review was rather displeased that such a "foolish" book should be so popular when it filled children's minds with false ideas like dishes…
Dreaming of August’s perfect red ripe tomatoes in the shade was more like it.
