February 21, 2005

Children's SF

Farah Mendlesohn is coming to UNBSJ this Wednesday to see our sf collection, and she will be giving an informal roundtable on children's lit, sf, Buffy, and whatever else comes up. Anyone in the area, come to Ward Chipman Library 232 at 12:30. Admission free; refreshments to be served. It's sure to be a good conversation. Farah is doing an interesting project about children's sf. And don't forget to take her survey of the childhood reading habits of sf readers.

I made posters using a picture from a science book for children published in 1959 from Dreams of Space: space art in children's books 1950's to 1970's, to which I linked some time back. An amazing site: so many space stations, and rockets, and Martian colonies. A good, old-fashioned future.