In a Nutshell: Bechtel Scholar Studies Chapbooks, Sendak

Authors

  • Suzi Waskerbarth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.13n1.03

Abstract

These are the words we sigh after, picturing the princess in the castle, the prince vanquishing the dragon, the child, quiet, sound asleep. Quiet seems to be a theme in books of manners for children, I’ve found. Chew your food with your mouth closed (quietly). Sit next to your sister (quietly) without biting her. Do not speak (be quiet) until spoken to, and when you do speak, speak quietly.

Author Biography

Suzi Waskerbarth

Suzi Wackerbarth is a children’s librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Downtown and Business. She was formerly a children’s librarian and cataloger at Northland Public Library in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. She participated in the Bechtel Fellowship in May 2013.

References

Susan Dove Lemke, “What Makes a Good Manners Book?” Horn Book 88 (Sept./Oct. 2012): 32–38.

Jeremiah Post, “Review of A Book about Chapbooks: The People’s Literature of Bygone Times by Harry B. Weiss,” RQ 10, no. 2 (Winter 1970): 169, www.jstor.org/stable/25824107, accessed Aug. 15, 2014.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art (New York: Philomel, 2007), 74.

Leonard Marcus, ed., Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 154.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Artist to Artist, 74.

School of Good Manners (Haverhill, N.H., Haverhill,1802), t.p.

“Alphabet of Useful Copies,” School of Good Manners (New London, Conn.: T&J Green, 1754), 77.

Selma Lanes, The Art of Maurice Sendak (New York: Abrams, 1980): 71–72

S. Babcock, Lessons for Good Children, in Easy Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1837): 5.

Ibid., 3.

Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup with Rice (New York: HarperCollins, 1962), 20.

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Published

2015-03-23

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): Spring

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Features

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