you know, for kids

My visit to the Newberry Library's exhibit, Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children's Books, coincided with the taping of Eight Forty-Eight's audio profile of the same. So I slipped in with the WBEZ production crew, listening to the curator talk about his favorite pieces.



[from Voyages & glorieuses découvertes des grands navigateurs & explorateurs francais, Edy Legrand]

The exhibit comprises many treasures, but one of my favorites was the strange book of manners, Why Be A Goop?


An excerpt:
ADOLPHUS ELFINSTONE
Playing With Matches
Adolphus Elfinstone, of Nachez,
Thought it was fun to play with matches
Until the little Goop had learned
It hurt a lot when he got burned!
A little fire is queer and curious;
But soon it grows quite big and furious.