Off-Handed Art: Collecting the Sketches of Visiting Children’s Book Creators

The other day I wrote a post about those books so beloved by librarians that they’d rather lock them away in a cabinet or a drawer than weed them. As a result, I received countless comments from people confessing to me what their locked up books were. Then I got this comment from Meg. It read:

“I haven’t been able to keep them in the system, but I’ve rescued them from the discard pile: Marguerite de Angeli’s books including Skippack School, Thee, Hannah, and Henner’s Lydia. Yup, I’m in Penns...