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From: Angelica Carpenter <angelica>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:00:45 -0700
Angelica Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature at California State University, Fresno, will present a slide-illustrated travelogue on her ?Magical Sabbatical: A Children?s Literature Tour of England and Other Places" at the annual meeting of the Arne Nixon Center Advocates (ANCA) to be held Saturday, October, 8, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Residence Dining Hall on the Fresno State campus.
During the spring 2005 semester, Angelica visited European collections of children?s literature at Roehampton University in Surrey, England; the Bodleian Library in Oxford; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Seven Stories, The Centre for the Children's Book, at Newcastle upon Tyne; the National Library of the Netherlands, and the International Youth Library, Munich. Her talk will feature highlights from these collections and photos of many other children?s literature sites and events, including programs sponsored by the Lewis Carroll Society, a visit to the Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and interviews with Richard Peck and Jacqueline Wilson, the new Children's Laureate of Britain.
The program will include a display of posters and books acquired for the Arne Nixon Center on her travels. Angelica Carpenter?s books about Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Lewis Carroll, will be available for sale and autographing. A short ANCA business meeting will also be included. Refreshments will be served, starting at 9:30 a.m., with the program to begin at 10 a.m.
Free parking is available in Lot G on the northwest corner of Cedar and Shaw Avenues. Enter from Cedar via Scott Avenue, the first street north of Shaw. Admission is free, but reservations are required by calling (559) 278-8116 or by E-mail to anc at listserv.csufresno.edu.
Received on Fri 30 Sep 2005 01:00:45 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:00:45 -0700
Angelica Carpenter, Curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature at California State University, Fresno, will present a slide-illustrated travelogue on her ?Magical Sabbatical: A Children?s Literature Tour of England and Other Places" at the annual meeting of the Arne Nixon Center Advocates (ANCA) to be held Saturday, October, 8, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Residence Dining Hall on the Fresno State campus.
During the spring 2005 semester, Angelica visited European collections of children?s literature at Roehampton University in Surrey, England; the Bodleian Library in Oxford; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Seven Stories, The Centre for the Children's Book, at Newcastle upon Tyne; the National Library of the Netherlands, and the International Youth Library, Munich. Her talk will feature highlights from these collections and photos of many other children?s literature sites and events, including programs sponsored by the Lewis Carroll Society, a visit to the Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, and interviews with Richard Peck and Jacqueline Wilson, the new Children's Laureate of Britain.
The program will include a display of posters and books acquired for the Arne Nixon Center on her travels. Angelica Carpenter?s books about Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Lewis Carroll, will be available for sale and autographing. A short ANCA business meeting will also be included. Refreshments will be served, starting at 9:30 a.m., with the program to begin at 10 a.m.
Free parking is available in Lot G on the northwest corner of Cedar and Shaw Avenues. Enter from Cedar via Scott Avenue, the first street north of Shaw. Admission is free, but reservations are required by calling (559) 278-8116 or by E-mail to anc at listserv.csufresno.edu.
Received on Fri 30 Sep 2005 01:00:45 PM CDT
