BYU Library - Special Collections

Scope and Contents Collection includes a variety of materials that were removed from Lloyd Alexander's office, most of which relate to his career as a children's book author. Materials include correspondence from accordion folders, publishers, personal/fan mail, awards received, book manuscripts received, and Alexander related manuscripts; interviews and speeches on cassette tapes and typewritten documents; Disney movie materials, including media (video games, tapes, etc.), memorabilia, papers, and...

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Contains the professional papers of Marsha D. Broadway on subjects relating to her affiliations with the Harold B. Lee Library, namely as Juvenile Literature Librarian and as an instructor in the School of Library and Information Sciences. The collection contains correspondence, copies of speeches, agreement and policy forms, financial records, special collections forms, and other various materials relating to the Juvenile Literature Library at Brigham Young University, 1985-2011.

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Contains materials produced by the author A. E. Cannon. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence of A. E. Cannon. Correspondence regards both professional work and personal life. Includes manuscripts of various A. E. Cannon works along with revision notes. Also includes articles produced by A. E. Cannon or which reference her and her work. Emphasizes Cannon's various publications for children and young readers. Materials dated 1980 to 1997.

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Contains syllabus and supplementary material for a course concerning literature in elementary curriculum, 1926.

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Contains drawings, reports, and newspaper articles concerning the children's mural.

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The materials are from Jessica Martinez's first two novels: Virtuosity and The Space Between Us. The books are adolescent literature novels. There is a manuscript of Virtuosity with handwritten notes from Martinez's editor. Dated 2010-2012.

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Autograph manuscript of a children's story, originally titled "Far From My Home," concerning the Spanish colonization of the West Indies island of Dominica and the role played by Penda, a quadroon in the service of the Governor's wife. Several pages of the manuscript are written on the reverse side of earlier versions of the story.

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Views of Alexander, taken in his home office, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Westwood visited the award winning children's literature author to urge him to donate his papers to Brigham Young University. The photographs are a color process.

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Contains manuscript drafts of Jacob's Journal of Doom with electronic line comments from Isaac Stewart and Lisa Mangum. Also contains illustrated manuscripts of Jacob's Journal of Doom and illustrated bookmark. Dated 2011-2012.

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Collection contains a poster with selections of the book "The Jenny Wren Book of Valentines" in an attempt to possibly promote it. With both extracts and illustrations from the book it gives the viewer an informed perspective of what to expect within as well as a personal note to all customers. The collection dates 1989.