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Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2017
Books&People

Sketches of the Great War
IN THIS ISSUE

from the Stacks:

The Many Faces of World War I
What Stacks Up
What Stacks Up
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A short-term exhibition of Stephanie Merchant, Circulation Assistant
Favorite It was supposed to be over in a matter of months, but it ended up lasting over four

years. This year many institutions are offering centennial retrospectives on the First
Books World War and its many aspects. Our own Library presented an exhibit on the
literature and writings of the war back in 2014. It showed the importance of acquiring
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books on the subject at a time when many Americans wanted to ignore the European
Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) PAGE 7 conflict. It was of particular interest to our Head Librarian then, Frank B. Bigelow.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm
Pictures by Maurice Sendak
New York: HarperCollins Publishers: 1982
It’s a really good book. I like it because
a lot of things happen that can’t happen
in real life. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures Amongst the books added to the shelves at that time was one I recently found, with
children of bad habits. The book makes
me feel happy. She’s magical. I love her.
Felicity Strauss, age 7, reads with her mother, a fading and chipped binding, in the cartooning section. “I Was There” with the Yanks
Meredith Strauss, at the Library.
on the Western Front: 1917-1919 (741.3 B) is the name of this astonishing collection
of sketches, made throughout the war by the prolific 20th-century illustrator
New Exhibition C.L. Baldridge.
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