February 25 - August 17, 2025
From the Harry Ransom Center:
“We’re excited to announce our latest exhibition Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children’s Literature. Opening February 25, and running through August 17, 2025, this exhibition celebrates the creation and lasting impact of children’s storytelling through a range of media.
Explore the playful creativity and experimentation of young writers during the early modern period alongside examples of juvenilia from contemporary authors, including Jayne Anne Phillips, Gabriel García Márquez, and Kazuo Ishiguro. View early twentieth-century magic lantern slides from Aesop’s Fables, celluloid paintings from Walt Disney’s 1951 animated film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), as well as illustrations from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince (1943). The exhibition also highlights the work of book illustrator Arthur Rackham, who reimagined Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of suspenseful short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1902), for a younger audience.
Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children’s Literature is sponsored by H-E-B and David and Ellen Berman.”
On View: February 25, 2025 | 12–5 pm
21st and Guadalupe
Austin, 78713 TX
512-471-8944
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