A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection
edited by Carolyn J. Brown, Ellen Hunter Ruffin, and Eric L. Tribunella
University Press of Mississippi    151 pp.    g
3/21    978-1-4968-3339-6    $45.00
e-book ed.  978-1-4968-3340-2    $30.00

A handsome introduction to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi provides a heavily illustrated look at many of the collection's specialties, including sections on series fiction and Golden Books, African American children's literature, "Golden Age" illustrated books, Southern children's literature, the H. A. and Margret Rey and Ezra Jack Keats collections, and, oh joy, "hornbooks, Battledores, and Chapbooks." Your reviewer (who has contributed an essay on the de Grummond's Richard Peck papers) highly recommends a visit!

From the July/August 2021 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.