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Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children’s Literature
On view through August 17, 2025
Harry Ransom Center
Austin, Texas
www.hrc.utexas.edu

“Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children’s Literature” celebrates the creation and lasting impact of children’s storytelling through a range of media.

Explore the playful creativity and experimentation of young writers during the early modern period alongside examples of juvenilia from contemporary authors, including Jayne Anne Phillips, Gabriel García Márquez, and Kazuo Ishiguro. View early twentieth-century magic lantern slides from Aesop’s Fables, celluloid paintings from Walt Disney’s 1951 animated film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), as well as illustrations from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince (1943). The exhibition also highlights the work of book illustrator Arthur Rackham, who reimagined Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of suspenseful short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1902), for a younger audience.

Find out more here: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2025/words-and-wonder-rediscovering-childrens-literature

[Image: John Tenniel, Illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, (London: Macmillan, 1866). Warren Weaver Book Collection of Lewis Carroll, PR 4611 A7 1866 c.1. Harry Ransom Center.]