Publishers Weekly

Library of Congress Collection Tells the Story of American Children’s Books

With contributions from the Library of Congress’s National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature and input from children’s book specialists, LoC writer and editor Hannah Freece created Tell Me a ...
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Librarian of Congress Hayden loved a children’s book. Did it contribute to her firing?

In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African American girl, a Girl Scout Brownie with pigtails. Carla Hayden, a ...