Hope this finds you safe and well. It’s been one month since my last newsletter. Or has it been ten years?! I’m not so sure anymore…
Extra, Extra! Issue Nº 4 of The Little Enterprise is here!
From the Archives: Jane… the homebody?
Love these Marvelous Mrs. Maisel set photos of the fictional Jane Jacobs protesting in Washington Square.
Tidbits, asides, miscellany…
Staying Home: our running list of online and offline activities is evolving.
Handmade maps of life under quarantine.
Get your Studio Ghibli zoom backgrounds here!
What historians will see when they look back on the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. (Relatedly: I am using this time to re-read and destroy my stack of journals. A few pages made the cut for posterity. My fellow archivists understand this impulse to erase the record, I’m certain.)
A timely read: Fever Year, the middle-grade graphic non-fiction of the 1918 flu pandemic.
Beloved art-themed children’s books from the MoMA.
For my friends on Pinterest: check out my Kid-lit and Non-Fiction for Young Readers Pinterest Boards.
Thoughts? Ideas? Recommendations? I love connecting with fellow readers, writers, parents, and humans. Please drop me a line!
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r.p.