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Number 17
(February 2010)
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TThe public is invited to a talk by Tim Hamilton on Friday,
March 19th, at 7 p.m. at the Woodward Park Library, 944
East Perrin Avenue, in northeast Fresno. Hamilton was
authorized by Ray Bradbury to create a graphic novel
version of Fahrenheit 451. First published in 1953,
Bradbury’s chilling novel tells the story of Guy Montag, a
fireman whose job is burning books. In Montag’s tightly
monitored world, thinking is dangerous and books are
forbidden. Later this novel was made into a feature film
starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.
Now Tim Hamilton has transformed the story into a
striking new work of art that uniquely captures the hero’s
awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought
and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and
literature. Reviewers have called Hamilton’s darkly muted
illustrations, appropriately sparked with burning orange,
“vibrant and vital.” Ray Bradbury wrote the introduction to
this new version of his classic book.
Critics debate whether graphic novels are comic books,
or something else, but everyone agrees that this format
constitutes one of the hottest trends in publishing today,
appealing particularly to young adults. Find out more
about them and about creator Tim Hamilton, whose previ-ous
graphic novel was Treasure Island. This free program
is co-sponsored by the Arne Nixon Center and the Fresno
County Public Library as part of
“The Big Read” for 2010.
Hamilton’s book will be avail-able
for sale and autographing.
Hamilton will also participate in
the Ray Bradbury
Tribute Symposium
(see enclosure)
on March 20.
Tim Hamilton: Hot, Hot, Hot!
(“The Big Read” 2010)
The Arne Nixon Center and The International Wizard of
Oz Club (www.ozclub.org) invite everyone to a national
Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the
Fresno State campus. Featured speakers will include
Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick
Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John
Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated
Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; Kathleen
Krull, author of The Road to Oz: Twists, Bumps, and
Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum; graphic
novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in
Oz and many other bestselling graphic novels; and
Graham Rawle, a British illustrator whose new version of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was proclaimed the Best
Illustrated Book and Book of the Year at the 2009 British
Book Design Awards.
(See Oz Conference, page 2)
The Yellow Brick Road
leads to Fresno!
AANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates,
invites everyone to its eighth annual
Secret Garden Party on Sunday, April 11,
from 3 to 5 p.m. There will be no cyclones,
flying monkeys, or apple-throwing trees,
but you might see a Wicked Witch in this spacious north
Fresno garden. The party will feature songs from
“Wicked,” the hit Broadway musical, and other Ozzy
surprises. Funds raised will support the programs and
collections of the Arne Nixon Center, including the Oz
conference. The exact location will be revealed to
underwriters and ticket holders upon registration.
Underwriters are needed; they will receive tickets to
the party and acknowledgements in promotional
materials. The $1,000 Sponsor fee includes up to eight
tickets; Patrons, for a $500 fee, get up to six tickets;
Contributors, for $250, receive up to four tickets.
Individual tickets are also available for $50.
For information call (559) 278-5790 or send e-mail to
kelliew@csufresno.edu.
Tim Hamilton
Photo credit: Seth Kushner
Emerald City Edition
Tales & Tidbits
from ANCA
(Arne Nixon Center Advocates)
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by Denise Sciandra, ANCA President
2
hen one door closes, another one opens. That is what
happened in January 1974. I had just moved to Fresno
with my husband and six-month-old daughter. I was
disappointed that it was too late to enroll in classes at
Fresno State but was happy to come across a flyer for Arne
Nixon’s Third Annual Festival of Children’s Books. It
sounded interesting and now I had a child to read to. Little
did I know that this would be the start of a lifelong
association with Arne Nixon.
On March 29, 1974, I arrived at the Men’s Gymnasium at
Fresno State where I looked forward to hearing from the
smorgasbord of Caldecott and Newbery award-winning
authors and illustrators named on the flyer, including
William Armstrong, Lynd Ward, Jean Craighead George,
and Don Freeman.
The first speaker on Friday evening was Gladys
Yessayan Cretan. She was not an award winner and was
little known even in 1974. I wonder if her work has
survived other than in libraries and on my personal book
shelf. She spoke of bringing children and books together,
of keeping writing pure and simple, and of using realism,
preparing children for the real world.
Cretan followed those rules in Lobo, a book that turned
out to be a favorite of my daughter. The title character is a
very small dog named whose name means “wolf” in
Spanish. Even though he is brave and fierce and can “run
like the wind,” he is mainly seen as little. Lobo comes to
learn that being big isn’t just a matter of size.
Another favorite book came out of this festival. That
was Don Freeman’s Corduroy, a recently published book
at the time but a beloved classic by now. My adult
daughter loves having a signed copy of Corduroy with a
sketch of Corduroy drawn by Don Freeman.
Corduroy is a stuffed bear on a shelf in a department
store who is passed over by children, possibly because he is
missing a button from his overalls, causing one strap to
hang down. Along comes Lisa who loves Corduroy just the
way he is. What a wonderful life lesson!
I was hooked immediately on Arne’s festivals and his
passion for children’s literature was contagious. I attended
all of his festivals from that time forward. I have bookcases
full of signed, embellished books.
The door has long since closed on my daughter’s
childhood but is just opening for her six-month-old son,
Samuel Edwin. I can hardly wait to share Lobo and
Corduroy with him. I wonder which characters will turn
out to be Sammy’s favorites?
The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in
Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department
and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Susan L.
Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of
Oz, will also speak. The Henry Madden Library will offer an
Oz exhibition and a Special Collections exhibit on the
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. This world’s fair
attracted Oz creator L. Frank Baum and artist W.W.
Denslow to Chicago, where they later formed a partnership
to write and illustrate children’s books.
The Arne Nixon Center Advocates will sponsor the
conference reception. Other community sponsors include
The School Library Media Credential and Master’s Program
at the Fresno Pacific University School of Education and
The Fresno County Public Library. Much more information
is available at www.arnenixoncenter.org.
Oz Conference, from front page
Gregory Maguire, center, will be a featured speaker
for the “Oz: The Books” conference on May 15.
AAnswers to quiz:
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame 1
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Hitty: Her First Hundred
Years by Rachel Field
by Angelica Carpenter
CORNER
CURATOR’S
hat’s your favorite Oz book? That is, which is your
favorite of the 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum?
Many people know just one, The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz, published in 1900, and some may know it only
from the 1939 movie. The first book is terrific, of
course, but some series fans, like me, prefer the later
stories. After the first book was published, Baum had a falling-out with W.W.
Denslow, the illustrator. The rest of his Oz books feature beautiful Art Nouveau
pictures by John R. Neill. For series fans, Neill’s art defined the look of Oz.
I have no scientific evidence to support this theory, but casual observation
suggests that the third book, Ozma of Oz, is considered the best by many,
including me. The plot is like an Indiana Jones adventure, in which Dorothy
and Princess Ozma (the rightful ruler of Oz, who came to power in the second
book), go underground to battle the Nome King. (Baum thought that “Gnome”
was too difficult a word for children.) The Nome King looks like Santa Claus
and even acts jolly, but he is selfish, power-crazed, and dangerous. Luckily for
Fresno, Ozma is the play to be presented during the Oz conference, as a
full-scale musical entitled “Return to Oz.” I can’t wait to see the Wheelers, who
have wheels instead of hands and feet, and the Princess Langwidere, who
changes her 30 heads the way other women change their hats.
Sometimes I think that my favorite is Glinda of Oz, in which Dorothy and
Ozma travel to a remote part of Oz to stop a war between the Flatheads and the
Skeezers. The Flatheads, who live on a mountain, have heads that are flat on
top, as if they had been cut off just above the eyes and ears. They carry their
brains in cans in their pockets. The Skeezers live on a glass-domed island in the
middle of a lake. To protect themselves, the Skeezers can submerge their island,
using a combination of machinery and magic that is a hallmark of Baum’s
stories. When Dorothy and Ozma are trapped underwater, their friends, led by
Glinda, come to the rescue.
My childhood favorite was The Magic of Oz, in which the Nome King and
others use a magic word, “Pyrzqxgl,” to transform themselves into whatever
people or animals they want to be. “It might be well…” advises Baum, “in read-ing
this story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce Pyrzqxgl the proper way,
and thus avoid all danger of the secret being able to work mischief.” I’m still
trying to pronounce it! In this book, several characters from earlier books look
for birthday presents for Ozma. One gift is a magic plant that blooms flowers or
fruit on demand. I loved that story; maybe it’s my favorite, except—wait! What
about The Patchwork Girl? Maybe that’s the best Oz book of all!
Oh well, what’s your favorite Oz book?
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In Ozma of Oz, Princess
Langwidere tries on one
of her 30 heads.
MAGIC MIRROR
MAGIC MIRROR
The Arne Nixon Center for the
Study of Children’s Literature
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
5200 North Barton Ave. M/S ML34
Fresno CA 93740-8014
Phone: (559) 278-8116
Please call for an appointment.
Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
Published by
Angelica Carpenter, Curator
E-mail: angelica@csufresno.edu
Jennifer Crow, Library Assistant
Mila Rianto, Library Assistant
Staff
ANCA Board of Directors
Denise Sciandra, President
Phone (559) 229-5085
E-mail: denises@comcast.net
Jessica Kaiser,
1st Vice President, Programs
Kristene Scholefield,
2nd Vice President, Membership
Audry Hanson,
Corresponding Secretary
Angelica Carpenter,
Recording Secretary
Cynthia MacDonald, Treasurer
Cheryl Caldera
Dan Dunklee
Ruth Kallenberg
Jo Ellen Misakian
Judith Neal
Ellis Vance
Alma Flor Ada
Steven Mooser
ANC Advisory Committee
Peter McDonald
Michael Cart
Maurice J. Eash
ANC Governing Committee
Angelica Carpenter, Editor
Janet Bancroft, Designer
Magic Mirror
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Thanks to Rosalie Pratt for donating more than 200
books this year, and for paying to ship them all the way
from Australia. She wrote this column especially for The
Magic Mirror.
early 70 years down the track, I realise that my brothers
and I had very privileged childhoods in relation to books
and reading. These were a part of our lives from the time
we were in nappies. Reading out loud at bedtime seems to
have started when I was about two, and I still have wee
U.K. books—Topsy and Turvey and All That and
Hollow Tree House—from this time. One day they, too,
will be sent to the Arne Nixon Center. I spent my primary
(elementary) school years in a country town which had a
marvellous children’s library—and librarians. What a
world of discovery and creativity opened up over those
nine years! Borrowed books were joined by Christmas and
birthday presents, and rewards for school achievements.
Whole series were built up, and with the book, beliefs were
inculcated: books mattered—they were precious
repositories and they were to be cherished. If possible, one
tried not to “love them to death.”
From reading to writing: when I began my nursing
career I had no inkling that eventually Australian nurse
education would progress from the archaic hospital train-ing
of my experience to the tertiary sector. Especially after
transition to universities in the 1990s, it became im-perative
for nurse academics to engage in scholarship as
well as practice. For this many were ill-prepared, and some
of us who had had the opportunity of higher education
were able to assist our colleagues, not only by writing but
also by editing multi-(novice) author texts. Later I
co-authored a history of one of our nursing colleges.
When our parents died (and as my brothers and I are
childless), the childhood books came home to roost with
me. Having repossessed what few they wanted, the “boys”
were happy for me to decide the fate of the rest. I was
loath to consign this precious cargo to a second-hand book
fair. I learned of the Lu Rees Archives of Australian
Children’s Literature at the University of Canberra. What a
revelation, and the people there were so delighted to
receive our contribution. There still remained over 150
books from North America, U.K. and Europe. Provi-dentially,
Belle Alderman from Lu Rees suggested I contact
Angelica Carpenter at the Arne Nixon Center. Hallelujah!
Not only was Angelica pleased to have the North American
titles, but also almost all those from U.K. and Europe.
Thus, some 147 were shipped off in a number of
consignments, including a ‘rag’ book (“absolutely inde-structible”)
and Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia in
ten volumes. These still have the cloth covers made by
Mum, with the volume and page numbers embroidered on
the spines—I’m afraid some of them
were almost loved to death!
What a blessing are such centres as
Arne Nixon and Lu Rees. Books still
matter—perhaps more than ever—as
quintessential contributors to human
culture and creativity, civilisation and
community. In my view, they are crucial
to the development of ideas and imagi-nation—
and thus to empathy for each
other. Long may they be written and read!
Books from Down Under
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by Rosalie Pratt
Rosalie Pratt
he family of the late Carolyn H. Buck, 1927-2007, have
donated more than 200 Lewis Carroll books to the Arne
Nixon Center from her collection. Carolyn Buck enjoyed a
long-time love affair with Alice in Wonderland.
Her collection got its roots from an elderly family
friend, Miss Patty Pierce, who was an English instructor at
the University of the Pacific in Stockton in the late 1940s
and 1950s. For years, Carolyn and her husband, Donald H.
Buck, brought Alice books to Miss Pierce from their
worldwide travels. Eventually the Bucks purchased Miss
Pierce’s collection and began what became a decades-long
passion and pursuit of all things Alice.
Visiting more than 60 countries, the Bucks always
hunted for new editions of Alice in bookshops, used book-stores,
local flea markets, even grocery stores. Carolyn’s
collection grew to more than 600 volumes in 31 languages.
Carolyn’s fascination with Alice was in keeping with her
affection for the written word. She graduated with honors
as an English major at San Jose State University. After
marrying Don Buck and settling in Stockton, she taught
high school journalism. Later, as a mother to three
children, and as a junior high history teacher, she shared
her love of books both at home and among friends.
An avid reader and book club member, she wrote
research papers for the Nineteenth-Century Club and was
an art/history docent for more than 30 years at Stockton’s
Haggin Museum. She was a devoted member of the Jane
Austen Society of North America and attended many of its
gatherings here and in England. As a member of the Lewis
Carroll Society of North America, Carolyn corresponded
with fellow Alice enthusiasts world-wide, from Croatia to
Japan. She enjoyed a years-long correspondence with Alice
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ho could forget the story of Hitty, the 19th-century
wooden doll who delighted readers with her self-told tale
of travel and adventure? In 1929 author Rachel Field be-came
the first woman ever to win the Newbery Award for
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. How many readers
know, however, that Hitty was inspired by a real doll? The
six-and-one-half-inch carved doll was spotted in the
window of a New York antique store by Rachel Field and
her friend Dorothy Lathrop, the book’s eventual illustrator.
Story has it that while the two marveled over the museum-quality
doll, they decided to pass on her purchase. It was
later that an idea came to Lathrop. Field should write a
book about the antique doll and Lathrop would illustrate
it. As tales of the doll’s journeys took hold in Field’s
imagination, she hurried back to the store, only to find the
doll gone. Luckily, the doll had only been removed from
the shop window; she was waiting comfortably inside. A
relieved Field bought the doll, whose only identification
was a yellowed tag that read, simply, “Hitty.” The rest of
Hitty’s story lies within the pages of Field’s book.
The Arne Nixon Center has lately become better ac-quainted
with Rachel Field through the purchase of some
of her papers. The papers were collected by Marion Severn,
a noted attorney and personal friend of Field’s. She later
passed them to her close friends, the Bobrick family. Last
year when Benson Bobrick offered the papers for sale, the
Nixon Center jumped at the chance to own them. The
papers contain original typescripts of plays, Field’s pub-lished
magazine articles, research notes, family photo-graphs,
illustrations, and many more interesting finds.
There is even a 1907 letter that ten-year-old Field wrote to
her mother exclaiming her awe at receiving an auto-graphed
photo of the famous stage actress Maude Adams.
Rachel Field was born in New York City, September
19, 1894. The family later moved to Massachusetts where
Field attended a small private school. Although she said
that she began to write at an early age, oddly enough,
Field refused to learn to read until she was almost eleven.
She stated that she preferred listening to her mother read
“real books” rather than trying to read the more juvenile
material by herself.
Field was an accomplished playwright, poet, and
novelist for both children and adults. Her novel All This
and Heaven Too became a best-seller and was later made
into a movie starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer. Field
was also a talented artist who illustrated many of her own
books. Working in pen, brush, and ink, she created simple
but elegant silhouettes and open line drawings.
In 1935 Field married author Arthur Pederson with
whom she co-wrote an adult novel entitled To See
Ourselves. The couple moved to California and later
adopted an eight-week-old infant whom they named
Hannah. Field lovingly wrote the poem Prayer for a
Child for her young daughter, but tragically did not live
to see it published as a picture book. Rachel Field died
unexpectedly on March 15, 1942, from pneumonia con-tracted
after an operation. She was 47 years old. Her
daughter Hannah was only two. Prayer for a Child,
illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones, won the Caldecott
Medal for illustration in 1945.
Although her life was cut short, Rachel Field left a
legacy of written and illustrated material. The Arne Nixon
Center is proud to own a piece of it.
Rachel Field Archive
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by Jennifer Crow
Hitty, as illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop in
Rachel Field’s Hitty: Her First Hundred Years.
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scholar Edward Wakeling. One of
her great joys was visiting Wakeling
at his home in England in 2001.
Carolyn compiled volumes of
Alice theatre programs and advertis-ing
examples, as well as Alice art
objects, collectibles, and ornaments.
In 1994, part of her collection was
exhibited at the Haggin Museum.
Her family knows how delighted and extremely proud
Carolyn would have been that her collection of Alice books
has found such a respected home at the Arne Nixon Center.
Through this donation of Carolyn’s collection, her
family hopes that these much-loved books will live on in
the hearts of those who love Alice in Wonderland as
much as she did.
and David Buck
Carolyn Buck
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“My goodness, look at my tomato plant. There are little
tomatoes on the vines.”
“Granddad, come and see my latest Lionel train car
for my railroad!”
“Garrett, this is a European folk tale of the trolls in
their homes in the fiords and their many
adventures.”
Whether the hobby is gardening, trains, or books, each
hobby has many surprising virtues: attracting others of
like minds, freeing the mind for relaxation, providing the
rush of nostalgia that comes when one is totally engrossed.
Reading and collecting juvenile and young adult fiction
have become vital to my life. I come from a Norwegian
family, the first generation born in this country. I
remember vividly the European folk tales my parents read
to me, of the fantasy world of the trolls.
By the time I was seven, my mother was reading L.
Frank Baum’s Oz books to me. It was then that I knew The
Wizard of Oz was my favorite childhood story. My
mother’s favorite was The Wind in the Willows by
Kenneth Grahame. Willows is exquisite prose and it truly
must be heard again and again. My mother read it to me
repeatedly for years. Repeated readings nourish our
memory banks.
I was about nine when my father read me Paddle to
the Sea by Holling Clancy Holling. Dad would take out
the globe and show me Canada, with his finger tracing the
route of the little canoe as he read a chapter each evening.
All of these personal connections with my mother and
father over the subject of my hobby—books—helped me
to learn good taste, to create interest in particular authors,
to expand my verbal vocabulary, and have alone time
with each of my parents.
My parents were modeling reading for me. They read a
lot for pleasure and work, and both were book collectors.
They each belonged to a hobby book club. They praised
my independent reading activities. They had many books,
magazines, and newspapers around the house. Print was
always readily available.
Our black and white television was frequently OFF.
Gardening, reading, trains, and glass paperweights were
the hobbies of our family. Television was not a prime
medium of entertainment.
Father began each dinner hour by opening a huge
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and announcing our
“Word for the Day.” He read the part of speech, pro-nunciation,
and assorted definitions, and then asked each
of us to use the new word in a sentence. This took only
five minutes of the dinner hour, but after nearly 15 years
of this routine, we knew and discussed thousands of
words and used them in our schoolwork.
Dad used to say, “Children are not born believing
anything. They get what they believe from their parents,
and the simplest way to do it is through storytelling and
through literature.” So it is with the hobby of reading, but
there are benefits from all the other typical hobbies, too,
like stamps, coins, dolls, lead soldiers, gardening, sewing,
automotive restoration, cooking, and too many other
hobbies to mention in this article.
With each of those hobbies comes companionship with
other like collectors, quiet times when one works on the
hobby alone, teamwork time when one discusses the
hobby, reflection and nostalgic occasions when one
peruses one’s hobby, and relaxation, as the impact of the
hobby on one’s senses envelopes the collector.
A hobby is good for the soul.
Garrett Lothe publishes Susabella Passengers and Friends, a
bimonthly series book magazine about all juvenile
series. The price is $20 a year. For information, write to
him at 80 Oceans Pine Lane, Pebble Beach, CA 95953.
Hobbies Nourish
the Memory Banks
by Garrett Knute Lothe
Thanks to Michael Cart, the well-known author, columnist,
book reviewer, and library leader, for his most recent
donation of 43 boxes of books. Happily unpacking, clock-wise
from top left, are Angelica Carpenter, Jennifer Crow,
Marcie Morrison, Matt Borrego, and David Real. The boxes
held 1,138 young adult novels from 2007 and 2008.
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Congratulations to Katherine Paterson (seated, left),
shown in 2009 at the Beatrix Potter conference in
Fresno. Paterson, a two-time Newbery winner, has
just been named the U.S.’s second National Ambassa-dor
for Young People’s Literature and she recently
became a Life Member of the Arne Nixon Center
Advocates. Seated, right, is Margarita Engle, whose
novel Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba, won
the 2010 Sidney Taylor Gold Medal for the book for
older readers that most authentically portrays the
Jewish experience. Standing, left to right: ANCA
President Denise Sciandra, Professor and theat-rical
director J. Daniel Herring, and Curator
Angelica Carpenter.
ANCA Board members. Seated from left to right:
Judith Neal, Jessica Kaiser, Audry Hanson, President
Denise Sciandra, Angelica Carpenter, Kristene
Scholefield. Standing, from left: Cheryl Caldera,
Ellis Vance, Dan Dunklee, Jennifer Crow, Ruth Kallen-berg.
Not shown: Cynthia MacDonald, Jo Ellen Misakian.
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Can you identify book titles from these first lines?
(Answers on page 2)
The mole had been working very hard
all the morning, spring cleaning his little house.
Q 1
Q 2
A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge,
as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent
wheeling away by the turbulent air.
Q 4
The antique shop is very still now. Theobold and I have it all to ourselves,
for the cuckoo clock was sold day before yesterday and Theobold has been so
industrious of late there are no more mice to venture out from behind the woodwork.
Q 3
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to
see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
