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Matthew and Mungo, boys with a different skin color and culture, have a friendship that is tested during the Mau Mau bid for national independenceTrudy, by Henry Cole
It seems as though Trudy the goat knows when to expect snow, but it turns out that she is really expecting something completely differentOne beetle too many : the extraordinary adventures of Charles Darwin, by Kathryn Lasky
Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution
Children's Collection
The Children's Collection at Ohio University is located on the 4th floor of Alden Library.
- It includes approximately 20,000 volumes and is primarily designed to serve students and faculty in the fields of early childhood, elementary, and secondary education. (A Children's Historical Collection of 1,400 volumes is located in the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. Additional older titles are housed in the Library's Annex.)
- Books are collected for infants through adolescents.
- Books are primarily in the English language, but a small portion of the books are in other languages.
- The Collection includes all of the Caldecott and Newbery medal winners, all of the Caldecott honor books, all but one of the Newbery honor books, and the winners of many other awards.
- It also includes a small collection of audiobooks.
- The Collection does not include textbooks for children or young adults.
Need Help?
If you need assistance locating a book in the Children's Collection, ask at the Circulation Desk on the fourth floor. If you need assistance doing research about children's literature, contact Wanda Weinberg. Her contact information is to the right.
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