The Children’s Culture Study Group (CCSG) is a graduate student-run organization at the University of Florida dedicated to the study of children’s literature and culture. Consisting of both faculty and students, the CCSG provides the unique opportunity to examine the children’s literature collection located in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department […]
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The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention is now offering classes in the Creativity Lab starting September 10th. With classes ranging from using sound and light waves to create art, to an afternoon dedicated to special effects (and everything in between) this fall is sure to be the most exciting yet in the Creativity Lab! To […]
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the International Theater Festival OKINAWA for Young Audiences
Kana Handel is originally from Tokyo but now calls Gainesville home, and her work has been displayed all around the city–at the Hippodrome, the Sweetwater Print Co-Op, and the Harn Museum of Art. The Center for Children’s Literature and Culture has long admired Kana’s work for the dreamy surreality of her images and the creativity […]
Congratulations to Kate DiCamillo, who was chosen to fill the post of National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
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On display at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art from December 10, 2013 – June 08, 2014, Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends showcases over 40 photographs by street photographer and filmmaker Helen Levitt. Many of Levitt’s photographs of street life in 1930s and 1940s New York City […]
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In honor of the 70th anniversary of the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, see an excerpt from award-winning author and friend of the CCLC Peter Sís’s forthcoming book, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In addition to writing poems and stories, Saint-Exupéry also flew (and sometimes […]
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