Join RBSC for a “Wild Ride”!
Posted on April 22, 2020 @3:24 pm by Chelsea Shriver
With the closure of UBC Library due to the quickly evolving situation with COVID-19, we apologize that this wonderful exhibition will not be open to the public in the coming weeks. Please enjoy these photos of the exhibition, which were taken by the talented student curators. A complete catalogue of the exhibition can be downloaded here.
Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library is delighted to announce a new exhibition: The Wild Ride: In and Out of Years and Over a Century of Picturebooks.
Many thanks to guest bloggers Logaine Navasques, Maureen Duteau, Jacqueline Noel, and Jordyn Zirk for contributing the below post! Logaine and Maureen, graduate students in the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program, and Jacqueline and Jordyn, graduate students at the UBC School of Information, curated this magical new exhibition under the supervision of Dr. Kathryn Shoemaker, Adjunct Professor with the UBC School of Information.
The Wild Ride: In and Out of Years and Over a Century of Picturebooks is a chronological look at the evolution of the picturebook, one of the important literary art forms to emerge from the 20th Century. The exhibit features ground breaking, innovative books such as Millions of Cats, Madeline, Where the Wild Things Are, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, I Want My Hat Back and other brilliant picturebooks responsible for forging a literary art form that reflects the culture of its time and is becoming a vital form in promoting visual and print literacy for all ages.
The literary picturebook is a new literary art form that emerges in the 20th century, evolving from the illustrated children’s book. It evolves concurrently with two other relatively new visual sequential narrative forms, comic/graphic novels and animated films. The three forms influence each other as they develop principally because so many of the creators worked in all three forms. This exhibit highlights key books in this evolution revealing how each changed the nature and content of the picturebook form.
The Wild Ride: In and Out of Years and Over a Century of Picturebooks is on display from March 4 through May 30, 2020. The exhibition is free and open to the public, and people of all ages are encouraged to attend. A complete catalogue of the exhibition can be downloaded here. For more information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections at (604) 822-2521 or rare.books@ubc.ca.
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Five favourite fairy tales, part VIII
Posted on April 17, 2020 @5:01 pm by Chelsea Shriver
From “The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French” (PZ6 1910 Q954)
We’ve made it to Friday, and have also arrived at our final “five favourite fairy tales” assignment post. Thank you so much to Professor Pamela Dalziel and her students in the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image” for sharing these with us! Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
For this assignment, Professor Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.”
We hope you enjoy these final fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
From “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (PZ8 .A542 St 1911)
Five fairy tale selections, part VIII:
- “There was an old lady…”: Representations of Old Women in Five Victorian Fairy Tales
- New clothes, sailing voyages, Prince Perrypets, Robinson Crusoe, and seven wonderful cats
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Five favourite fairy tales, part VII
Posted on April 15, 2020 @9:43 am by Chelsea Shriver
“Beauty and the Beast” (SPAM23774)
I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely weekend!
Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
From “The House of Joy” (PR10.S5 H6 1895)
So far we have sixteen assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part VII:
- Japanese fairy tales, beauty and beasts, ginger and pickles, four chirps, and water babies
- Houses of joy, red riding hoods, Brothers Grimm, sleeping beauties, and pied pipers
Five favourite fairy tales, part VI
Posted on April 8, 2020 @10:57 am by Chelsea Shriver
From “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” (PZ6 1902 P687)
Since we’ll be away on Friday and Monday for the Easter long-weekend, this will be the last new fairy tale post until next week. Happily, today’s fairy tale picks feature one of literature’s favourite rabbits!
Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
So far we have sixteen assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time over the coming weeks. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
“The Fairy Tales of Science” (PZ6 1866 .B76)
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part VI:
- Brownies, soldier’s children, grandmother’s shoes, wet magic, and rabbits!
- Monsters, cats, dogs, snap-dragons, and brown owls
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Five favourite fairy tales, part V
Posted on April 6, 2020 @5:00 pm by Chelsea Shriver
From “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” (PR10.M2 B7 1889 P5)
Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
From “Red Riding Hood” (PZ6 1895 .R427)
So far we have sixteen assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time over the coming weeks. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part V:
- Riding hoods, Queen of Hearts, fairy lands, revolving pictures, and a book full of holes
- More ice maidens, French tales, pied pipers, Cinderella in songs, and wymps
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Five favourite fairy tales, part IV
Posted on March 16, 2023 @9:18 am by Chelsea Shriver
From “Princess Belle Étoile” (PZ6 1874 C736)
Happy Friday! Just in time for weekend, we have some new fairy tales to share.
Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
From “The Selfish Giant” (PR10.R4 W5 1888 H3)
So far we have thirteen assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time over the coming weeks. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part IV:
- Beauties and beasts, jungles, ice maidens, dancing princesses, and heroic princesses
- Cinderella, cursed ladies, selfish giants, sorrowful princes, and great Marley’s ghost!
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Five favourite fairy tales, part III
Posted on April 1, 2020 @2:40 pm by Chelsea Shriver
From “The Wise Princess” (PZ7.D3775 Ne)
I hope everyone is taking care and staying well as we welcome April! Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
So far we have nine assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time over the coming weeks. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
“Little Poems for Little People” (PZ6 1850z B872)
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part III:
- The colour of fairy tales: poems, tales for village children, curiosity shops, and Japanese fairy tales
- White roses, wise princesses, brownies, more little witches, and a second helping of dumplings
Five favourite fairy tales, part II
Posted on March 30, 2020 @3:36 pm by Chelsea Shriver
From “In Powder and Crinoline” (PZ7.3.A1 Q85 In 1913)
I hope you are all staying safe and well! Even though the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is currently closed, we’re excited to share through our blog the delightful results of a student assignment undertaken during the winter 2020 term for the English course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image.”
For this assignment, Professor Pamela Dalziel asked her students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
From “The Little Witch of the Plain” (PZ6 1897 .S537)
So far we have nine assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time over the coming weeks. Be sure to read all of the fairy tale assignments kindly shared by Professor Dalziel’s students.
We hope you enjoy these fairy tale selections and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of the books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part II:
- Powder and crinolines, Arabian nights, French fairy tales, jungles, and wonder voyages
- Witches!: White doves, missing bletherwitches, little witches, science, and the power of love
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Five favourite fairy tales, part I
Posted on March 24, 2020 @8:36 am by Chelsea Shriver
From “The Exceptional Tadpole” (PZ6 1897 .S537)
I hope you are all staying healthy and well today! While the Rare Books and Special Collections reading room is closed, we will unfortunately not be able to host some of the classes that we had scheduled to visit in the last few weeks of the winter 2020 term. We love hosting classes, as it allows us to introduce that many more students to our amazing collections. And it’s wonderful to see the interesting materials, some of which are new even to us, that professors select for the classes. But we especially love to see the results of the students’ work with our collections and the incredible insights they bring to their topics. Since we’re not open physically, we’re very happy to share some of this great student work with you virtually!
One of the assignments for Professor Pamela Dalziel’s winter 2020 course, “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image,” was a delightful project asking students to “choose five illustrated Victorian fairy tales available in Rare Books and Special Collections that you would like to have in your personal collection.” Some of Professor Dalziel’s students were kind enough to share their final selections with not only the team at RBSC, but also with the public through our blog.
From “The Old Woman who Lost her Dumpling” (PZ6 1898 H427)
So far we have seven assignments that students have been willing to share, some anonymously and some with author credit. I’ll post links to the final assignments a few at a time throughout the week. We hope you enjoy them and will perhaps be inspired to stop by RBSC to see some of these books for yourself once the RBSC reading room has reopened.
Five fairy tale selections, part I:
- Princesses, beanstalks, dragons, star-lovers, and lost dumplings
- Thieves and liars; mice, birds and sausages; and tadpoles and frogs galore
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Take a tour of the Chung Collection
Posted on November 2, 2021 @1:39 pm by Chelsea Shriver
The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, one of our most well-known and beloved special collections, contains material related to three broad and interrelated themes: early British Columbia history, immigration and settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The collection contains a wide variety of documents, photographs, books, artifacts and maps related to each of these themes.
Selections from the collection are on display in RBSC, organized to show some of the most compelling stories of Canada’s past.
Early B.C. history:
Related to early B.C. history are rare editions of the narratives of many Pacific voyages of discovery including Valdes, Galiano, Malaspina, Cook and Vancouver. The exhibition also features charts recording the exploration of the Pacific Northwest.
Immigration and settlement:
The Fraser River gold rush that sparked Chinese immigration to British Columbia is highlighted through books and government documents relating to the restriction of such immigration. Chinese-Canadian cultural, social and economic life is displayed through archival documents, photographs and artifacts.
European immigration to Canada is illustrated with promotional brochures and posters encouraging settlers to the West, and archival material from the Clandonald colony in Alberta, a community of immigrants from the Scottish Hebrides.
Canadian Pacific Railway:
Documents, maps and publications show how the Canadian Pacific Railway was built, and how Vancouver was chosen as the western terminus. Photographs and accounts of the building of the railway are presented, along with vibrant posters promoting travel and tourism via C.P.R. rail and steamships. Beautiful examples of cruise ship memorabilia provide a glimpse of the style of the times.
RBSC offers a drop-in tour of the Chung Collection room every Thursday at 10 a.m. The exhibition is also open to the public, free of charge during Rare Books and Special Collections opening hours (Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.). We hope to welcome you for a visit soon!
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