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Anne Pellowski was born in Pine Creek, WI, in 1933. She earned a B. A. from the College of St. Teresa in Winona, MN, and an M. S. L. S. with honors from Columbia University in 1959. After several jobs as a children's librarian and English instructor, she began working for the U. S. Committee for UNICEF as director of the Information Center on Children's Cultures. Her books on story telling and her children's literature surveys stem from her career interests. In addition, her "Four Farms" series is based on her family's history of five generations of Polish American children on a Wisconsin farm.
Biographical Source:
This collection consists of manuscripts for 11 titles, several in more than one edition. Included are the "Four Farms" manuscripts as well as bibliographies and collections of children's lieterature, which Ms. Pellowski compiled alone or with others, in conjunciton with her work for the Information Center on Children's Cultures.
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In 1959/60, Anne Pellowski became familiar with the Kerlan Collection when she corresponded with Dr. Kerlan from the International Youth Library in Munich. She cited the Kerlan Collection as a location for special collection materials in several of her bibliographies, and in 1972 she began contributing her own manuscripts to the collection. Several donations of books followed. In 1982 Ms. Pellowski decided she wanted to place all her manuscripts in the same collection. Bibliographies, literature surveys, and the first of the "Four Farms" manuscripts arrived that year, followed by more manuscripts as they became available.
Gift of:
Betsy's Up-And-Down-Year, 1983
Clippings
Family Storytelling Handbook, 1987
First Farm in the Valley: Anna's Story, 1982
First Farm in the Valley: Anna's Story, 1988
Have You Seen a Comet?, 1971
Hidden Stories in Plants, 1990
Stairstep Farm: Anna Rose's Story, 1981
Stairstep Farm: Anna Rose's Story, 1989
Story Vine, 1984
Willow Wind Farm: Betsy's Story, 1981
Winding Valley Farm: Annie's Story, 1982
Winding Valley Farm: Annie's Story, 1988
World of Children's Literature, 1968
World of Storytelling, 1977
World of Storytelling, 1990
New York: Putnam, 1983
Sweat, Lynn, illus.
New York: McMillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1987
New York: Putnam, 1982
London: Macdonald Press, 1988
New York: John Day, 1971
New York: McMillan, 1990
New York: Putnam, 1981
London: Mcdonald Press, 1989
New York: McMillan, 1984
New York: Putnam, 1981
New York: Putnam, 1982
London: Mcdonald Press, 1988
New York: Bowker, 1968
New York: Bowker, 1977
Bronx, NY: H W Wilson, 1990