I want to share some more photographically illustrated books for young people with you that I treasure because they are marvelous to discover, as well as unlikely to ever be published these days. In the post-Law & Order SVU-era, they would raise too many red flags in showing, for example, bears carrying naked babies through… Continue reading Children’s Books Worth Treasuring
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“Teeny Academy”
ICP Library launched an experiment on January 15. We invited the small bibliophiles we knew to come in an test drive ICP's new Elmo overhead projector, and library’s collection of photographically-illustrated children’s books and films. The impetus for this was a yearning to go even further at opening our arms to new audiences. When ICP… Continue reading “Teeny Academy”
Danny Goldfield’s NY Children get their Day in the Sun
The remarkable project from the heart of Danny Goldfield, to photograph one child living in NYC from every nation in the world resulted in a self-published book the library is the proud possessor of. Danny, an ICP member, popped into the library a couple of years ago with prints of these portraits and seduced us… Continue reading Danny Goldfield’s NY Children get their Day in the Sun