Cotsen Children’s Library

A Recipe for Mince Pies in The Lilliputian Magazine (1752)
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen: Adaptions for Children You Never Imagined
Who Invented the Stuffed Animal?
The Earliest Recipe for Turducken in the First Known Reference to “The House that Jack Built”
Made for a Grandson: A Nursery Rhyme Cloth Book ca. 1897
Little Thumb: Perrault’s Resourceful Abandoned Boy
Unique Ideas for Halloween Costumes from a 19th-Century Transformation Toy
Glorious Victorian Toy Books on Exhibit in the Cotsen Gallery
Cross a River with a Goat, Cabbage, and a Wolf…
An Avant-garde Wordless Picture Book: The Marvelous Voyage of Spot and Dot
A True Story About African Girls in The Slave’s Friend (1835-1838), the First Abolitionist Periodical for Children
When You Dance “Do It Big, Do It Right, and Do It with Style”
A Shared Love for Picture Books: Chinese Publishers and Editors Visit the Cotsen Children’s Library
Thoroughly Modern Ogres
Captain Underpants Lives: Can Silliness Be Stifled?
Let’s Cool Off in the Snow!
Presidents in Picture Books: Revising Trump I 2016-2020
Money, that Clinking, Clanking Sound in 18th-century Children’s Books
Welcome Back Tigers: Download an Illustration of the Greatest Mascot for a Souvenir of 2025 Reunions
A Woman’s Work at Her Needle Is Never Done

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