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Cece Bell Papers, 1988/2017 6 Linear Feet

Bell, Cece

Papers of Cece Bell (W & M '92), an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. The collection documents Bell's creative process, from initial brainstorming to finished product, and also details editing interactions between Bell, her husband Tom Angleberger (W & M '92), and others. Includes story development, illustration tests and sketches.

  1. College of William and Mary

Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit, 1907/1918 0.03 Cubic Feet One letter-size file folder

This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos book duplicates a post-1903 edition of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in manuscript and watercolor illustration, identifiable as a post-1903 edition by the substitution of "Peter shed big tears" for the first edition's "Peter wept." The reverse side contains six original botanical and landscape watercolors by Mary English, executed at an unspecified later date. Two watercolors are laid in: a collection of daisies inscribed "Mama darling" on verso, and a horse labeled "Limerick" on recto with the inscription "To darling, darling Mummy from Mary" on verso, dated 1918. The three pieces of correspondence laid in include letters from Mary's grandmother Rachel Anne English (1832–1920) and from Fanny to Mary, written across Mary's childhood and adulthood.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Francoise Marie Gabrielle Delecey de Changey children's book (Addition 52) 2024-0091, 1800/1802 Box 11, Folder 7

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one handmade picturebook of hand-colored engraved cutouts. A later inscription on the front pastedown reads, "Fait par la baronne de Chalancey née Delcey pour as fille Clémence devenue Ctsse d' Esclaibes d'Hurst." The book was was created by the Baroness de Chalancey for her little girl Clemence, born in 1797.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building., 1700/2014
  3. Series 2. 1800-1971

Susan Richards Shreve papers, 1969/2020 12 Cubic Feet 29 legal size document boxes (15.25 x 10.25 x 5), one half-size legal box, and one oversize box, and digital files 0.34 Gigabytes 911 files

Shreve, Susan

This collection contains the papers of Susan Richard Shreve (b. 1939), a prominent American author, a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University and a co-founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation (1985) for which she served as a board member and chairman.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

"Take Off with Books" and "Sing Out for Books" posters for New York Children's Book Week (Addition 14) 2023-0135, 1965/1967 0.13 Cubic Feet 2 Posters (22x6) room 138 OS processing tray Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox) 1

Addition 14 of MSS 16758, The UVA Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains two promotional posters (22"X6") for the 1965 and 1967 New York Children's Book Week. The art of Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney made the artwork for the 1965 poster. The illustration depicts a fox carrying a stack of books with a crow overhead, looking down at the fox perched from a branch with the words "Sing out for Books" in French. The other poster from 1967 contains a linocut illustration of hot air balloons with a floating banner reading "Take Off With Books." Marcia Brown, the only triple Caldecott Medal winner, made the art for this poster.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building., 1700/2014
  3. Series 4. 1950-2014

The Journey of Jeremy Rabbit, 1988/1989 .03 Cubic Feet One letter size folder

Karon, Jan (Janice), 1937-

This collection contains a handwritten and hand-illustrated fair-copy bound manuscript titled, "The Journey of Jeremy Rabbit," by Jan Karon for her daughter, Candace, with a dedication note at the beginning of the manuscript.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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