A shimmer of joy
Subtitle: one hundred children's picture books in America
By: by Chris Loker ; with contributions by Cathryn M. Mercier, Joel Silver, & Michael F. Suarez
Contributors: Mercier, Cathryn M., contributor; Silver, Joel, 1951- contributor; Suarez, Michael F., 1960- contributor; Carle, Eric, contributor
Edition: Deluxe edition.
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Published: 2019
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781732548206
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Picture books for children; Bibliography; Exhibitions; Children's books; History; Children's literature; History and criticism
Description: "In this volume, Chris Loker, the proprietor of the Children's Book Gallery, an antiquarian children's bookshop in San Francisco, profiles and reflects on the legacies of iconic American children's books, spanning from 1900 to the present day (with the last title being published in 2015). Being co-published with the Book Club of California as well as Godine, this book was inspired by an exhibition with the Grolier Club in 2015 that profiled "One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature""--
Notes: "Book Club of California Publication Number 239"--Title page verso.

Deluxe edition of 50 copies.

Rare Book copy: No. 137; signed by the author

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift; American Institute of Graphic Arts; 2020.
Table of contents: title: I. Picture book compendium; title: Picture book proclamation; title: Picture book poem; title: Picture book definitions; title: II. Essays; title: What is a picture book? / by Chris Loker; title: Early illustration for children: a long prologue, and a short history in eight books / by Joel Silver; title: Childhood's pictures: framing the contemporary picturebook / by Cathryn M. Mercier; title: From paper to pixels and beyond: the future of the book for children / by Michael F. Suarez with Chris Loker; title: III. Children's picture books in America, 1900-2015; title: References; title: One hundred picture books; title: 1900 through 1920: The early modern picture book; title: 1920 through 1945: Picture books between the world wars; title: 1945 through 1975: Picture books from the postwar boom to the counterculture; title: 1975 through 2015: The contemporary picture book.