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Scholar
Studies Cinderella Stories
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Centuries of Cinderella" was the topic of our eleventh
Ezra Jack Keats Research Fellowship scholar. Floyd Dickman,
retired coordinator of the Ohio Center for the Book,
utilized the vast fairy tale holdings of the de Grummond
Collection in his quest to study the innumerable variants
of the Cinderella story. Dickman is interested in a
comparison study of the various versions, with a particular
focus on how Cinderella is depicted not only by the
illustration, but also in the text. Dickman has been
researching Cinderella stories for the past twenty years
and has a personal collection of more than 100 editions,
the oldest published in 1910. Recent additions include
a number of multicultural versions. Favorites from his
collection are two Cinderellas from the 1930s, both
published by Platt and Munk. One is illustrated by |
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Floyd Dickman
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Eulalie,
a paperback with a mix of black and white and color illustrations.
The other is illustrated by Lois Lenski, one of Dickman's
favorite illustrators. Dickman's research at the de Grummond
Collection continues of work begun at the Baldwin Collection.
That trip was funded by the 1999 Bechtel Fellowship, a program
sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children
that provides a stipend for extended research at the University
of Florida's children's literature collection. The Ezra Jack
Keats Fellowship is an annual program funded by the Ezra Jack
Keats Foundation, and we are grateful for its continued support
of our efforts to make the holdings of the de Grummond Collection
accessible to a growing number of scholars throughout the
world. Click on the link for more information about the 2002
Keats Fellowship.
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