{"id":13532,"date":"2016-04-22T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:28:16","slug":"innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=13532","title":{"rendered":"“Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Popular Children\u2019s Books” opens April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"CaptureA spring exhibition in UNC\u2019s Wilson Special Collections Library <\/a>will showcase controversial British and American children\u2019s literature and highlight the research of 22 UNC undergraduates.<\/p>\n

Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Popular Children\u2019s Books<\/em> will open in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room on April 28.<\/p>\n

The free public exhibition is the work of students in English 295, \u201cPopular Forms of Children\u2019s Literature.\u201d Members of the undergraduate research seminar investigated historical ideas about childhood and the ways that children\u2019s literature has reflected or challenged these ideas.<\/p>\n

On view will be items that include fairy tales, scrapbooks, eighteenth-century booklets known as chapbooks, and even comics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exhibition demonstrates the first principle of experiential education courses,\u201d said Prof. Laurie Langbauer, who taught the class. \u201cStudents soar when they can do their own original work. The libraries provided expert help and world class collections, and the students took off from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the support of UNC librarians, the students chose representative items from the collections of Wilson Library, determined how to group and exhibit the books, and then wrote labels and explanatory texts.<\/p>\n

The process was full of surprises. Junior Liza Kate Wall, for example, deemed finding a propaganda poster for the Treasury Office supporting U.S. efforts in World War II to be the most exciting moment of her research. The cartoonist was none other than children\u2019s book author Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n

Student Katherine Martin said that she and her classmates also appreciated the chance to learn more about the special collections library at the heart of campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilson Library has this aura of prestige and most students are too intimidated to use it. This class forced us to utilize all that Wilson has to offer. It was great walking up to this incredible building and coming out having found a 200-year-old chapbook,\u201d said Martin.<\/p>\n

Students also were able to make use of a new addition to the collections. To illustrate the \u201cJack tale\u201d genre, the Rare Book Collection purchased a rare copy of The History of Jack and the Giants<\/a><\/em>, an English chapbook published around 1800.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazingly, the students researching the Jack tale genre found a direct connection between the edition we purchased and the tradition of Beech Mountain Jack tales in North Carolina,\u201d said Langbauer. \u201cIt was an exciting moment of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

In celebration of the acquisition and exhibition, the opening of Corruption of the Innocents<\/em> on April 28 will feature North Carolina storyteller Orville Hicks sharing traditional Jack tales. <\/a>The program will begin at 5:30 p.m., following a reception and exhibition viewing at 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corruption of the Innocents<\/em> will be on view through August 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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