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✨🎅🏽Fairytale Friday🎅🏽✨
This week’s feature is The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, illustrated by Kurt Werth, and published in 1957 by J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia and New York.
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/46newbdb
This week’s feature is The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, illustrated by Kurt Werth, and published in 1957 by J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia and New York.
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/46newbdb
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
✨🎅🏽Fairytale Friday🎅🏽✨
This week’s feature is The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, illustrated by Kurt Werth, and published in 1957 by J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia and New York.
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/46newbdb
This week’s feature is The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, illustrated by Kurt Werth, and published in 1957 by J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia and New York.
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/46newbdb
New Year's Eve 🥂
As we wind down our winter work & settle in to await the New Year, we have Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023.
On this last, cold December night, we wish you a warm and safe New Year.
tinyurl.com/mwkhwftw
As we wind down our winter work & settle in to await the New Year, we have Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023.
On this last, cold December night, we wish you a warm and safe New Year.
tinyurl.com/mwkhwftw
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New Year's Eve 🥂
As we wind down our winter work & settle in to await the New Year, we have Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023.
On this last, cold December night, we wish you a warm and safe New Year.
tinyurl.com/mwkhwftw
As we wind down our winter work & settle in to await the New Year, we have Clare Leighton’s Rural Life: An Anthology, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2023.
On this last, cold December night, we wish you a warm and safe New Year.
tinyurl.com/mwkhwftw
Today we have The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer, Native Universe: Voices of American Indians by Gerald McMaster & Clifford E. Trafzer, & Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Assistant
tinyurl.com/y7d8bcpt
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Assistant
tinyurl.com/y7d8bcpt
December 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Today we have The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer, Native Universe: Voices of American Indians by Gerald McMaster & Clifford E. Trafzer, & Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Assistant
tinyurl.com/y7d8bcpt
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Assistant
tinyurl.com/y7d8bcpt
✨🎄Merry Christmas🎄✨
Today’s selection is Christmas Is a Time of Giving by Joan Walsh Anglund, published in 1961 by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday!
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/39jnwubx
Today’s selection is Christmas Is a Time of Giving by Joan Walsh Anglund, published in 1961 by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday!
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/39jnwubx
December 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨🎄Merry Christmas🎄✨
Today’s selection is Christmas Is a Time of Giving by Joan Walsh Anglund, published in 1961 by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday!
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/39jnwubx
Today’s selection is Christmas Is a Time of Giving by Joan Walsh Anglund, published in 1961 by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York.
Wishing everyone a happy holiday!
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
tinyurl.com/39jnwubx
Today’s selection is The Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien and published in 1976 by Houghton Mifflin in Boston.
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas Eve and a little wonder to carry into the morning.
Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/4mphvrv2
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas Eve and a little wonder to carry into the morning.
Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/4mphvrv2
✨📬Christmas Eve📬✨
Postmarked: North Pole There’s something about Christmas Eve that invites us to linger, to read one more page, to hold onto the magic just a little longer. Today’s selection is The Father Christmas...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Today’s selection is The Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien and published in 1976 by Houghton Mifflin in Boston.
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas Eve and a little wonder to carry into the morning.
Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/4mphvrv2
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas Eve and a little wonder to carry into the morning.
Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/4mphvrv2
Sit, Stay, Sleigh
This week’s feature is Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, in this delightful deluxe edition published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2007.
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/yc7ey3st
This week’s feature is Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, in this delightful deluxe edition published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2007.
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/yc7ey3st
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Sit, Stay, Sleigh
This week’s feature is Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, in this delightful deluxe edition published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2007.
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/yc7ey3st
This week’s feature is Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, in this delightful deluxe edition published by Chronicle Books in San Francisco in 2007.
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/yc7ey3st
Scottish wood engraver, illustrator, & painter, Agnes Miller Parker created wood engravings for The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, designed by British book designer John Dreyfus & printed in New York at Bert Clarke's & David Way's Thistle Press in 1964.
tinyurl.com/3x9cxyk3
tinyurl.com/3x9cxyk3
December 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Scottish wood engraver, illustrator, & painter, Agnes Miller Parker created wood engravings for The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, designed by British book designer John Dreyfus & printed in New York at Bert Clarke's & David Way's Thistle Press in 1964.
tinyurl.com/3x9cxyk3
tinyurl.com/3x9cxyk3
Typography Tuesday
These script typefaces are samples from Specimens of Printing Types from Stephenson, Blake, the Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield, published in Sheffield, England by the iconic British type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co. in 1959.
tinyurl.com/36s8p3fa
These script typefaces are samples from Specimens of Printing Types from Stephenson, Blake, the Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield, published in Sheffield, England by the iconic British type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co. in 1959.
tinyurl.com/36s8p3fa
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Typography Tuesday
These script typefaces are samples from Specimens of Printing Types from Stephenson, Blake, the Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield, published in Sheffield, England by the iconic British type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co. in 1959.
tinyurl.com/36s8p3fa
These script typefaces are samples from Specimens of Printing Types from Stephenson, Blake, the Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield, published in Sheffield, England by the iconic British type foundry Stephenson Blake & Co. in 1959.
tinyurl.com/36s8p3fa
We’re spending time with The Tomten, adapted by Astrid Lindgren from a poem by Viktor Rydberg and illustrated by Harald Wiberg. The Tomten reminds us there’s magic in stillness, wonder in winter nights, and comfort in knowing someone is keeping watch.
tinyurl.com/spap89ed
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/spap89ed
—Melissa, DCLA
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We’re spending time with The Tomten, adapted by Astrid Lindgren from a poem by Viktor Rydberg and illustrated by Harald Wiberg. The Tomten reminds us there’s magic in stillness, wonder in winter nights, and comfort in knowing someone is keeping watch.
tinyurl.com/spap89ed
—Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/spap89ed
—Melissa, DCLA
As any of our regular followers know, we just love chickens! This handsome fellow is an illustration from Bird Portraiture (“How To Do It” Series No. 35) by naturalist artist & illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe (1901-1979), published in London & New York by The Studio in 1945.
tinyurl.com/4af9m9r2
tinyurl.com/4af9m9r2
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
As any of our regular followers know, we just love chickens! This handsome fellow is an illustration from Bird Portraiture (“How To Do It” Series No. 35) by naturalist artist & illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe (1901-1979), published in London & New York by The Studio in 1945.
tinyurl.com/4af9m9r2
tinyurl.com/4af9m9r2
December 9th was John Milton's birthday (1608-1674). To honor his memory (& highlight the work of a woman wood engraver) we present these white-line wood engravings by artist & printmaker Mary Elizabeth Groom (1903–1958) from Milton's Paradise Lost (Golden Cockerel Press, 1937).
tinyurl.com/59mj3ydr
tinyurl.com/59mj3ydr
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
December 9th was John Milton's birthday (1608-1674). To honor his memory (& highlight the work of a woman wood engraver) we present these white-line wood engravings by artist & printmaker Mary Elizabeth Groom (1903–1958) from Milton's Paradise Lost (Golden Cockerel Press, 1937).
tinyurl.com/59mj3ydr
tinyurl.com/59mj3ydr
❄️Baby, It's Cold Outside❄️
This week’s featured title, Is That You, Winter?, was written and illustrated by Stephen Gammell and published in San Diego by Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace in 1997.
tinyurl.com/52y8xzar
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
This week’s featured title, Is That You, Winter?, was written and illustrated by Stephen Gammell and published in San Diego by Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace in 1997.
tinyurl.com/52y8xzar
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
❄️Baby, It's Cold Outside❄️
This week’s featured title, Is That You, Winter?, was written and illustrated by Stephen Gammell and published in San Diego by Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace in 1997.
tinyurl.com/52y8xzar
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
This week’s featured title, Is That You, Winter?, was written and illustrated by Stephen Gammell and published in San Diego by Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace in 1997.
tinyurl.com/52y8xzar
Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
This wood engraving of a White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is by British author & wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish from his 1948 book Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in a limited-edition of 1500 copies.
tinyurl.com/57vx3ufy
tinyurl.com/57vx3ufy
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This wood engraving of a White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is by British author & wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish from his 1948 book Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in a limited-edition of 1500 copies.
tinyurl.com/57vx3ufy
tinyurl.com/57vx3ufy
Wood Engraving Wednesday
We've been highlighting typography from The Curwen Press Miscellany & this volume also includes samples of 3 wood engravings.
Shown here are prints by Eric Gill (1882-1940), John Nash (1893-1977), and René Ben Sussan (1895-1988).
tinyurl.com/2rba8drt
We've been highlighting typography from The Curwen Press Miscellany & this volume also includes samples of 3 wood engravings.
Shown here are prints by Eric Gill (1882-1940), John Nash (1893-1977), and René Ben Sussan (1895-1988).
tinyurl.com/2rba8drt
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wood Engraving Wednesday
We've been highlighting typography from The Curwen Press Miscellany & this volume also includes samples of 3 wood engravings.
Shown here are prints by Eric Gill (1882-1940), John Nash (1893-1977), and René Ben Sussan (1895-1988).
tinyurl.com/2rba8drt
We've been highlighting typography from The Curwen Press Miscellany & this volume also includes samples of 3 wood engravings.
Shown here are prints by Eric Gill (1882-1940), John Nash (1893-1977), and René Ben Sussan (1895-1988).
tinyurl.com/2rba8drt
Here are some type borders & ornaments specimens from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon (1895-1956) & published in London for the Curwen Press by the Jewish publishing house Soncino Press in a limited edition of 275 copies in 1931.
tinyurl.com/3p39zz7y
tinyurl.com/3p39zz7y
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here are some type borders & ornaments specimens from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon (1895-1956) & published in London for the Curwen Press by the Jewish publishing house Soncino Press in a limited edition of 275 copies in 1931.
tinyurl.com/3p39zz7y
tinyurl.com/3p39zz7y
Typography Tuesday
SAN SERIFS
Here are a few san serif typefaces, with a focus on Curwen type from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon and published in London by the venerable Jewish publishing house Soncino Press.
tinyurl.com/27urs3pt
SAN SERIFS
Here are a few san serif typefaces, with a focus on Curwen type from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon and published in London by the venerable Jewish publishing house Soncino Press.
tinyurl.com/27urs3pt
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Typography Tuesday
SAN SERIFS
Here are a few san serif typefaces, with a focus on Curwen type from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon and published in London by the venerable Jewish publishing house Soncino Press.
tinyurl.com/27urs3pt
SAN SERIFS
Here are a few san serif typefaces, with a focus on Curwen type from The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen Press typographer Oliver Simon and published in London by the venerable Jewish publishing house Soncino Press.
tinyurl.com/27urs3pt
On November 24th, 1864, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born in Albi (southern France). Here we highlight Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, Lautrec, and Affiches de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: dix reproductions en couleurs.
tinyurl.com/32fwds2a
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
On November 24th, 1864, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born in Albi (southern France). Here we highlight Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris, Lautrec, and Affiches de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: dix reproductions en couleurs.
tinyurl.com/32fwds2a
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern
tinyurl.com/32fwds2a
Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern
This week, we step into the enchanted world of Edda and the Oak, written by Elia W. Peattie & illustrated by Katharine Merrill. Published in 1911, this magical tale brings together nature, mystery, and quiet wonder beneath the branches of an ancient oak.
Melissa, DCLA 🍄
tinyurl.com/3a3639h8
Melissa, DCLA 🍄
tinyurl.com/3a3639h8
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This week, we step into the enchanted world of Edda and the Oak, written by Elia W. Peattie & illustrated by Katharine Merrill. Published in 1911, this magical tale brings together nature, mystery, and quiet wonder beneath the branches of an ancient oak.
Melissa, DCLA 🍄
tinyurl.com/3a3639h8
Melissa, DCLA 🍄
tinyurl.com/3a3639h8
Toadally Autumn
As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, it feels like the perfect time to wander into the timeless world of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Michael Hague.
tinyurl.com/4jzukwxh
—Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, it feels like the perfect time to wander into the timeless world of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Michael Hague.
tinyurl.com/4jzukwxh
—Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Toadally Autumn
As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, it feels like the perfect time to wander into the timeless world of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Michael Hague.
tinyurl.com/4jzukwxh
—Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, it feels like the perfect time to wander into the timeless world of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Michael Hague.
tinyurl.com/4jzukwxh
—Melissa, Distinctive Collections Library Assistant
On The Road Again
This week we’re adventuring with The Traveling Musicians by the Brothers Grimm, featuring a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster who decide they’re tired of being underappreciated and overworked, so they hit the road to become musicians.
-Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/5actpbje
This week we’re adventuring with The Traveling Musicians by the Brothers Grimm, featuring a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster who decide they’re tired of being underappreciated and overworked, so they hit the road to become musicians.
-Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/5actpbje
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On The Road Again
This week we’re adventuring with The Traveling Musicians by the Brothers Grimm, featuring a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster who decide they’re tired of being underappreciated and overworked, so they hit the road to become musicians.
-Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/5actpbje
This week we’re adventuring with The Traveling Musicians by the Brothers Grimm, featuring a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster who decide they’re tired of being underappreciated and overworked, so they hit the road to become musicians.
-Melissa, DCLA
tinyurl.com/5actpbje
A House Sparrow Feathursday
Once again, we highlight one of our favorite common birds, the cheery House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Besides being a delightfully homey bird, it is also considered a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity. Ooo, la, la!
tinyurl.com/4v79mptr
Once again, we highlight one of our favorite common birds, the cheery House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Besides being a delightfully homey bird, it is also considered a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity. Ooo, la, la!
tinyurl.com/4v79mptr
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A House Sparrow Feathursday
Once again, we highlight one of our favorite common birds, the cheery House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Besides being a delightfully homey bird, it is also considered a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity. Ooo, la, la!
tinyurl.com/4v79mptr
Once again, we highlight one of our favorite common birds, the cheery House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Besides being a delightfully homey bird, it is also considered a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity. Ooo, la, la!
tinyurl.com/4v79mptr
As October ends, we bid farewell to spooky season with What’s a Ghost Going to Do? (William Morrow & Co, 1966) by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman. This heartwarming tale follows Gus; a ghost faced with a haunting dilemma: the only house he’s ever known is being torn down.
Melissa, DCLA
Melissa, DCLA
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As October ends, we bid farewell to spooky season with What’s a Ghost Going to Do? (William Morrow & Co, 1966) by Jane Thayer, illustrated by Seymour Fleishman. This heartwarming tale follows Gus; a ghost faced with a haunting dilemma: the only house he’s ever known is being torn down.
Melissa, DCLA
Melissa, DCLA
These preening Oystercatchers are from Bird Portraiture (“How To Do It” Series No. 35) by noted British naturalist artist & illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe, published in London & New York by The Studio in 1945. The illustrations come from the chapter on “Poses and Action Studies."
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
These preening Oystercatchers are from Bird Portraiture (“How To Do It” Series No. 35) by noted British naturalist artist & illustrator Charles Tunnicliffe, published in London & New York by The Studio in 1945. The illustrations come from the chapter on “Poses and Action Studies."
A Wicked Wood Engraving Wednesday
In 1985, Barry Moser printed his edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at his Pennyroyal Press. The images shown here are reproductions of Moser's original wood-engraved prints in the 1986 University of California Press edition.
In 1985, Barry Moser printed his edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at his Pennyroyal Press. The images shown here are reproductions of Moser's original wood-engraved prints in the 1986 University of California Press edition.
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A Wicked Wood Engraving Wednesday
In 1985, Barry Moser printed his edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at his Pennyroyal Press. The images shown here are reproductions of Moser's original wood-engraved prints in the 1986 University of California Press edition.
In 1985, Barry Moser printed his edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at his Pennyroyal Press. The images shown here are reproductions of Moser's original wood-engraved prints in the 1986 University of California Press edition.
These initials were designed by Dutch book & type designer Jan Van Krimpen in 1925 for use by Harold Curwen's Curwen Press. The alphabet shown here appears in The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen's typographer Oliver Simon, published in London for the Curwen Press by Soncino Press in 1931.
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
These initials were designed by Dutch book & type designer Jan Van Krimpen in 1925 for use by Harold Curwen's Curwen Press. The alphabet shown here appears in The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen's typographer Oliver Simon, published in London for the Curwen Press by Soncino Press in 1931.