CLRC-1377 Patricia Lauber Papers David Byer University of Minnesota Libraries 12/01/2004

University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455

EAD 2002 Validated Finding Aid generated with the aid of a custom FileMaker Pro database developed by the staff of the Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries. Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers. 12/01/2004 Description is in English Summary Information University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc] Lauber, Patricia Patricia Lauber Papers 1957-2000 CLRC-1377 Patricia Lauber's papers focus on her work as an author of children's non-fiction books. The collection contains production material for eighty-three titles published between 1959 and 2000 with some production material dating back to 1957. Production materials include typescripts, galley proofs, notes, layout notes, front matter, dummies, photocopies of illustrations, and research material. The collection also contains correspondence to and from Patricia Lauber concerning the publication of her books. 2.1 linear feet See Detailed Descriptions for Each Title Item for Box Locations English Important Information for Users of the Collections Access and Use:

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Biographical Sketch

Patricia Lauber was born February 5, 1924 in New York, NY. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1945 and worked for many years as a writer and editor for various magazines. In 1954, Patricia Lauber published her first book for children, Magic Up Your Sleeve. Throughout her long and prolific career Lauber has written dozens of non-fiction books on a variety of topics for children. She has also written works of fiction beginning with Clarence, the TV Dog in 1955. Patricia Lauber has received numerous nominations and awards for her non-fiction including a Newbery Honor Book citation for Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens (1986) in 1987. She received the Kerlan Award in 2000. Critics have praised her for making 'science an entertaining as well as enriching reading experience for children.' Critics have noted that she 'informs readers with clear explanations and up-to-date information and illustrations carefully selected by the author for their interest and accuracy.' Patricia Lauber's 'Clarence' stories have been praised as 'believable and funny.'

Biographical Source:Something About the Author, vol. 75, pp. 110-114.

Scope and Content

The collection contains production material for eighty-three titles published between 1959 and 2000 with some production material dating back to 1957. Production materials include corrected typescripts, corrected galley proof, notes, layout notes, front matter, dummies, proofs, photocopies of illustrations, and research material. The collection aalso contains correspondence to and from Patricia Lauber concerning the publication of her books.

Indexing Terms

The collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Lauber, Patricia Accession Information:

Patricia Lauber gave this collection to the University of Minnesota in 1987. She gave additional materials to the University from 1989-2000.

Gift of: Lauber, Patricia

Arrangement

All About the Ice Age, 1959

All About the Planets, 1962

Alligators: A Success Story, 1993

Battle Against the Sea: How the Dutch made Holland, 1956

Bats: Wings in the Night, 1968

Be a Friend to Trees, 1994

Big Dreams and Small Rockets: A Short History of Space Travel, 1965

Clarence and the Burglar, 1973

Clarence and the Cat, 1977

The Congo: River into Central Africa, 1964

Cowboys and Ranching: Yesterday and Today, 1973

Curious Critters, 1969

Dinosaurs Walked Here and Other Stories Fossils Tell, 1987

Earthquakes: New Scientific Ideas About How and Why the Earth Shakes, 1972

Earthworms, Underground Farmers, 1976

Everglades: A Question of Life or Death, 1973

Famous Mysteries of the Sea, 1962

What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks and Chopsticks, 2000

Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi, 1996

The Friendly Dolphins, 1963

The Friendly Dolphins, 1967

From Flower to Flower: Animals and Pollination, 1986

Fur, Feathers and Flippers: How Animals Live Where They Do, 1994

Get Ready for Robots!, 1986

Getting to Know Switzerland, 1960

Great Whales, 1975

Highway to Adventure; The River Rhone of France, 1956

Home at Last! A Young Cat's Tale,

How Dinosaurs Came to Be, 1996

How We Learned the Earth Is Round, 1990

Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms, 1996

Journey to the Planets, 1982

The Junior Science Book of Icebergs and Glaciers, 1961

The Junior Science Book of Penguins, 1963

The Junior Sceince Book of Volcanoes, 1965

Life On a Giant Cactus, 1974

Living with Dinosaurs, 1991

The Look-It-Up Book of Mammals,

The Look-It-Up Book of Stars and Planets, 1967

The Look-It-Up Book of Fifty States, 1967

Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart, 1988

The Mississipppi: Giant at Work, 1961

Mystery Monsters of Loch Ness, 1978

The News About Dinosaurs, 1989

An Octopus is Amazing, 1990

Of Man and Mouse: How House Mice Became Laboratory Mice, 1971

Painters of the Caves, 1998

Penguins on Parade, 1958

The Quest of Galileo, 1959

The Quest of Louis Pasteur, 1960

Sea Otters and Seaweed, 1976

Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide, 1981

Seeing Earth from Space, 1990

Snakes Are Hunters, 1987

Changing the Face of America: The Challenge of the St. Lawrence Seaway, 1959

The Story of Dogs, 1966

The Story of Numbers, 1961

Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988, 1991

The Surprising Kangaroos and Other Pouched Mammals, 1965

Tales Mummies Tell, 1985

Tapping Earth's Heat, 1978

The Tiger Has a Toothache: Helping Animals at the Zoo, 1999

This Restless Earth, 1970

Too Much Garbage, 1974

The True-or-False Book of Cats, 1998

Valiant Scots: People of the Highlands Today, 1957

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens, 1986

Volcanoes and Earthquakes, 1985

Voyagers from Space: Meteors and Meteorites, 1989

What Big Teeth You Have!, 1986

What Do You See and How Do You See It? Exploring Light, Color, and Visioin, 1994

What's Hatching Out of That Egg?, 1979

Who Discovered America? Settlers and Explorers of the New World before the Time of Columbus, 1970

Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs, 1995

Who Needs Alligators?, 1974

Your Body and How it Works, 1962

Purrfectly Purrfect: Life at the Acatemy, 2000

The True-or-False Book of Horses, 2000

All About the Planet Earth, 1962

Dust Bowl; the Story of Man on the Great Plains, 1958

You're Aboard Spaceship Earth, 1996

Collection Contents All About the Ice Age 1959

New York: Random House, 1959

MF2772 typescript, corrected 107 p. All About the Planets 1962

Renshaw, Arthur

New York: Random House, 1962

MF2770 typescript, corrected 98 p. MF2770 front matter 2 p. MF2770 typescript, corrected 93 p. MF2770 correspondence 7 p. MF2770 notes 3 p. Alligators: A Success Story 1993

Silva, Lou

New York: Holt, 1993

MF2770 typescript, corrected 28 p. MF2770 front matter 7 p. Battle Against the Sea: How the Dutch made Holland 1956

Pitcher, Donald

New York: Coward, 1956

MF2770 typescript, corrected 108 p. Bats: Wings in the Night 1968

New York: Random House, 1968

MF2614 typescript, corrected 34 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. MF2614 correspondence 1 p. MF2614 notes 8 p. Be a Friend to Trees 1994

Keller, Holly

New York: Harper-Collins, 1994

MF2772 typescript,corrected 9 p. MF2772 front matter 14 p. MF2772 page proofs 12 p. MF2772 correspondence 1 p. Big Dreams and Small Rockets: A Short History of Space Travel 1965

New York: Crowell, 1965

MF2614 typescript, corrected 38 p. MF2614 front matter 7 p. MF2614 layout notes 19 p. MF2614 research material 2 p. MF2614 galley proof, corrected 12 p. Clarence and the Burglar 1973

Galdone, Clarence

New York: Coward, 1973

MF2242 typescript, corrected 13 p. MF2242 galley proofs 3 p. Clarence and the Cat 1977

Galdone, Paul

New York: Coward, 1977

MF2769 typescript, corrected 13 p. MF2769 typescript front matter 6 p. MF2769 galley proofs 3 p. The Congo: River into Central Africa 1964

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1964

MF2614 typescript, corrected 43 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. MF2614 correspondence 2 p. MF2614 notes 8 p. MF2614 layout notes 3 p. Cowboys and Ranching: Yesterday and Today 1973

New York: Crowell, 1973

MF2614 typescript, corrected 102 p. MF2614 front matter 8 p. Curious Critters 1969

Champaign: Garrard, 1969

MF2614 typescript 11 p. MF2614 front matter 1 p. MF2614 typescript, corrected 22 p. Dinosaurs Walked Here and Other Stories Fossils Tell 1987

New York: Bradbury, 1987

MF1317 typescript, corrected 77 p. MF1317 galley proof, corrected 27 p. Earthquakes: New Scientific Ideas About How and Why the Earth Shakes 1972

New York: Randon House, 1972

MF2769 typescript, corrected 37 p. MF2769 galley proof, corrected 15 p. MF2769 page proof, corrected 60 p. MF2769 correspondence 2 p. MF2769 notes 1 p. Earthworms, Underground Farmers 1976

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1976

MF2614 typescript, corrected 18 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. MF2771 typescript, corrected 30 p. MF2771 front matter 3 p. Everglades: A Question of Life or Death 1973

Caulfield, Patricia

New York: Viking, 1973

MF2614 typescript, corrected 74 p. Famous Mysteries of the Sea 1962

Thomas Nelson, 1962

MF2614 typescript, corrected 98 p. MF2614 front matter 3 p. What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks and Chopsticks 2000

Manders, John

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000

MF2770 typescript, corrected 29 p. MF2770 front matter 1 p. MF2770 galley proofs 18 p. MF2770 page proofs 37 p. MF2770 correspondence 1 p. Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi 1996

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1996

MF2242 typescript, corrected 72 p. MF2242 correspondence 9 p. MF2242 page proof photocopy with illustrations 15 p. MF2242 notes 14 p. MF2242 front matter 4 p. MF2242 typescript 71 p. The Friendly Dolphins 1963

New York: Randon House, 1963

MF2614 typescript, corrected 37 p. MF2614 front matter 3 p. MF2614 typescript, corrected 1 p. MF2614 notes 1 p. The Friendly Dolphins 1967

Bartlett, William

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1967

typescript, corrected 34 p. front matter 3 p. From Flower to Flower: Animals and Pollination 1986

Wexler, Jerome

New York: Crown, 1986

MF2614 typescript, corrected, with layout notes 34 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. Fur, Feathers and Flippers: How Animals Live Where They Do 1994

New York: Scholastic, 1994

MF2772 page proofs 27 p. MF2772 correspondence 1 p. Get Ready for Robots! 1986

Kelley, True

New York: Crowell, 1986

MF2614 typescript, corrected, part photocopy with layout notes 26 p. MF2614 correspondence 3 p. MF2614 galley proof, corrected 6 p. Getting to Know Switzerland 1960

Pellicer, J. L.

New York: Coward, 1960

typescript, corrected 32 p. correspondence 5 p. Great Whales 1975

Champaign, IL: Garrard, 1975

MF2614 typescript, corrected 26 p. MF2771 typescript, corrected 64 p. MF2771 front matter 5 p. Highway to Adventure; The River Rhone of France 1956

New York: Coward, 1956

MF2770 typescript, corrected 57 p. Home at Last! A Young Cat's Tale

Chalmers, Mary

New York: Coward,

MF2770 typescript, corrected 28 p. MF2770 front matter 1 p. MF2770 galley proofs 16 p. How Dinosaurs Came to Be 1996

Henderson, Douglas

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996

MF2242 typescript, corrected 90 p. MF2242 correspondence 11 p. MF2242 photocopy of illustrations 3 p. How We Learned the Earth Is Round 1990

lloyd, Megan

New York: Crowell, 1990

MF1595 front matter 1 p. MF1595 typescript, corrected 18 p. MF1595 galley proof, corrected 4 p. MF1595 correspondence 4 p. MF1595 typescript, corrected 34 p. MF1595 correspondence 16 p. MF1595 dummy 18 p. MF1595 dummy 31 p. MF1595 proof sheets 4 p. MF1595 correspondence 50 p. MF2242 typescript, corrected 5 p. MF2242 front matter 6 p. MF2242 galley proof, corrected 12 p. Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms 1996

New York: Scholastic, 1996

MF2769 typescript, corrected 48 p. Journey to the Planets 1982

New York: Crown, 1982

MF2272 typescript, corrected 68 p. MF2272 front matter 4 p. MF2272 layout notes 1 p. The Junior Science Book of Icebergs and Glaciers 1961

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1961

MF2614 typescript, corrected 25 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. MF2614 correspondence 6 p. The Junior Science Book of Penguins 1963

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1963

typescript, corrected 26 p. front matter 2 p. correspondence 6 p. The Junior Sceince Book of Volcanoes 1965

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1965

MF2614 typescript, corrected 25 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. Life On a Giant Cactus 1974

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1974

typescript, corrected 19 p. front matter 2 p. Living with Dinosaurs 1991

Henderson, Douglas

New York: Bradbury, 1991

MF2272 typescript, corrected 52 p. MF2272 typescript galley proofs 18 p. MF2272 page proofs 63 p. MF2272 correspondence 3 p. MF2272 layout notes 18 p. MF2272 photocopy of illustrations 6 p. The Look-It-Up Book of Mammals

Coheleach, Guy

New York: Random House,

MF2272 typescript, corrected 121 p. The Look-It-Up Book of Stars and Planets 1967

Polgreen, John

New York: Random House, 1967

MF2272 typescript, corrected 117 p. The Look-It-Up Book of Fifty States 1967

Borst, Herbert

New York: Random House, 1967

MF2272 typescript, corrected 193 p. Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart 1988

New York: Scholastic, 1988

MF2769 typescript, corrected 86 p. The Mississipppi: Giant at Work 1961

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1961

MF2614 typescript, corrected 39 p. MF2614 front matter 2 p. Mystery Monsters of Loch Ness 1978

Mays, Vic

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1978

MF2614 typescript, corrected 21 p. MF2614 front matter 3 p. MF2614 correspondence 1 p. MF2614 layout notes 6 p. The News About Dinosaurs 1989

Gurche, John; Henderson, John and Paul, Gregory

New York: Bradbury, 1989

MF1317 typescript, corrected 24 p. MF1317 front matter 2 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 50 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 49 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 50 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 43 p. MF1317 page proof 1 p. An Octopus is Amazing 1990

Keller, Holly

New York: Crowell, 1990

MF1317 typescript 8 p. MF1317 photo of illustration with one separation 1 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 24 p. MF2771 typescript, corrected 5 p. MF2771 front matter 5 p. MF2771 galley proof, corrected 6 p. MF1317 galley proof, corrected 4 p. MF1317 dummy 66 p. MF1317 correspondence 24 p. MF1317 photocopy of illustrations 1 p. Of Man and Mouse: How House Mice Became Laboratory Mice 1971

New York: Viking, 1971

MF2615 typescript, corrected 76 p. MF2615 front matter 6 p. MF2615 layout notes 6 p. MF2615 research material 3 p. Painters of the Caves 1998

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1998

MF2615 typescript, corrected 26 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. Penguins on Parade 1958

Howland, Douglas

New York: Coward, 1958

MF2615 typescript, corrected 26 p. MF2615 front matter 1 p. The Quest of Galileo 1959

Ames, Lee J.

New York: Doubleday, 1959

MF2615 typescript, corrected 35 p. MF2615 front matter 1 p. MF2615 layout notes 5 p. The Quest of Louis Pasteur 1960

Ames, Lee J.

New York: Doubleday, 1960

MF2615 typescript, corrected 39 p. MF2615 front matter 5 p. MF2615 layout notes 9 p. Sea Otters and Seaweed 1976

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1976

MF2615 typescript, corrected 18 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide 1981

Wexler, Jerome

New York: Crown, 1981

MF2272 typescript, corrected 35 p. MF2272 front matter 6 p. MF2272 correspondence 1 p. Seeing Earth from Space 1990

New York: Orchard, 1990

MF1595 typescript, corrected 203 p. MF1595 front matter 1 p. MF1595 galley proof, corrected 104 p. MF1595 correspondence 15 p. Snakes Are Hunters 1987

Keller, Holly

New York: Crowell, 1987

MF1317 typescript 10 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 6 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected photocopy 6 p. MF1317 galley proofs 40 p. MF1317 correspondence 8 p. Changing the Face of America: The Challenge of the St. Lawrence Seaway 1959

New York: Coward, 1959

MF2770 typescript, corrected 47 p. The Story of Dogs 1966

New York: Random House, 1966

MF2615 typescript, corrected 25 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. MF2615 notes 1 p. The Story of Numbers 1961

New York: Random House, 1961

MF2615 typescript, corrected 48 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988 1991

New York: Orchard, 1991

MF2770 typescript, corrected 33 p. MF2770 front matter 3 p. MF2770 correspondence 1 p. The Surprising Kangaroos and Other Pouched Mammals 1965

New York: Random House, 1965

MF2615 typescript, corrected 31 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. MF2615 notes 1 p. Tales Mummies Tell 1985

New York: Crowell, 1985

MF2772 typescript, corrected 73 p. MF2772 front matter 4 p. Tapping Earth's Heat 1978

Malsberg, Edward

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1978

MF2772 typescript, corrected 23 p. The Tiger Has a Toothache: Helping Animals at the Zoo 1999

Morgan, Mary

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1999

MF2771 typescript, corrected 24 p. MF2771 front matter 5 p. MF2771 proof for jacket 1 p. MF2771 dummy 30 p. MF2771 correspondence 2 p. This Restless Earth 1970

New York: Random House, 1970

MF2615 typescript, corrected 88 p. MF2615 notes 2 p. Too Much Garbage 1974

Mays, Vic

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1974

MF2615 typescript, corrected 19 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. MF2615 typescript, corrected 19 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. MF2615 galley proof 1 p. MF2615 layout notes 5 p. The True-or-False Book of Cats 1998

Schanzer, Roz

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1998

MF2615 typescript, corrected 16 p. MF2615 front matter 3 p. MF2615 typescript, corrected 16 p. MF2615 correspondence 1 p. Valiant Scots: People of the Highlands Today 1957

New York: Coward, 1957

MF2770 typescript, corrected 57 p. Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens 1986

New York: Bradbury, 1986

MF1317 front matter 5 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 143 p. Volcanoes and Earthquakes 1985

New York: Scholastic, 1985

MF2615 typescript, corrected 43 p. MF2615 typescript, corrected 6 p. MF2615 typescript, corrected 3 p. Voyagers from Space: Meteors and Meteorites 1989

Eagle, Mike

New York: Crowell, 1989

MF1317 typescript 39 p. MF1317 typescript, corrected 88 p. MF1317 page proof 61 p. What Big Teeth You Have! 1986

Weston, Martha

New York: Crowell, 1986

MF2242 typescript, corrected 35 p. MF2242 correspondence 3 p. MF2242 layout notes 5 p. What Do You See and How Do You See It? Exploring Light, Color, and Visioin 1994

New York: Crown, 1994

MF2769 typescript 33 p. What's Hatching Out of That Egg? 1979

New York: Crown, 1979

MF2615 typescript, corrected photocopy 39 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. Who Discovered America? Settlers and Explorers of the New World before the Time of Columbus 1970

New York: Random House, 1970

typescript, corrected 174 p. page proofs 4 p. layout notes 13 p. Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs 1995

New York: Harper-Collins, 1995

MF2772 typescript, corrected 6 p. MF2772 correspondence 1 p. Who Needs Alligators? 1974

Champaign IL: Garrard, 1974

MF2615 typescript, corrected 3 p. MF2615 typescript, corrected 20 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. Your Body and How it Works 1962

New York: Random House, 1962

MF2615 typescript, corrected 35 p. MF2615 front matter 2 p. MF2615 notes 6 p. Purrfectly Purrfect: Life at the Acatemy 2000

Lewin, Betsy

New York : HarperCollins, 2000

MF3062 typescript 5 p. MF3062 typescript 37 p. MF3062 photocopy of typescript w/ illustrations 6 p. MF3062 photocopy of typescript, corrected 42 p. MF3062 front matter 1 p. MF3062 front matter 2 p. MF3062 gallery proof 36 p. MF3062 page proof 40 p. MF3062 proof for jacket 1 p. MF3062 dummy 46 p. MF3062 photocopy of illustrations 8 p. MF3062 correspondence 6 p. MF3062 notes 1 p. The True-or-False Book of Horses 2000

Schanzer, Roz

New York: HarperCollins, 2000

MF3062 typescript, corrected 20 p. MF3062 photocopy of typescript 22 p. MF3062 front matter 2 p. MF3062 photocopy of front matter 1 p. MF3062 page proof, corrected 17 p. MF3062 proof of jacket 1 p. MF3062 photocopy of front pages 5 p. MF3062 photocopy of illustrations 16 p. MF3062 correspondence 6 p. MF3062 notes 3 p. MF3062 research material 2 p. All About the Planet Earth 1962

New York: Random House, 1962

MF2770 typescript, corrected 87 p. Dust Bowl; the Story of Man on the Great Plains 1958

New York: Coward, 1958

MF2242 typescript, corrected 46 p. You're Aboard Spaceship Earth 1996

Keller, Holly

New York: HarperCollins, 1996

MF2772 typescript 5 p. MF2772 front matter 4 p. MF2772 correspondence 2 p. MF2772 notes 2 p.