Timothy Young, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library, talks with Dr. Pádraic Whyte, associate professor of English and the current director of the Children's Literature MPhil programme at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

Related at the Beinecke Library: the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature, formed over the course of more than three decades, it is one of the largest and most diverse in scope. Books from the colonial period, reading and learning manuals, etiquette books, children’s literature classics, fairy tales, poetry (including Mother Goose rhymes), American editions of British or European classics, books about American history or great American figures, letters and manuscripts by writers of children’s literature, or written by young people or to them, chapbooks, juvenile journalism, games, original artwork by American illustrators. These add to the existing printed collections of 19th century chapbooks in the Beinecke Library’s collection, with a strong representation of New Haven and New England-area printers.

An area of recent growth with has been the papers of writers and illustrators for children and young adults – with the acquisition of the papers of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Lillian and Russell Hoban, Miriam Schlein, Harvey Weiss, Karla Kuskin, Mo Willems, Judy Blume, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, The International Syndicate, Leonard Marcus, and William R. Scott, Inc. Most of these papers were accompanied by significant print collections.

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