Tell Me a Story: Fantastic Children's Books from the Library of Congress, which "reimagines the canon of American children's literature while tracing the evolution of literary, artistic, and publishing trends," has been published by the LOC and is distributed by the University of North Carolina Press. Tell Me a Story is available in paperback in the Library of Congress Store and via booksellers.
This new book is the fourth installment in the Library's Collection Close-Up series, "which celebrates the variety, breadth and depth of Library of Congress collections. These compact and accessible books bring Library collections to life through historical anecdotes, colorful images, and descriptive captions and sidebars," the LOC noted.
In his foreword to Tell me a Story, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Mac Barnett writes that children's literature is a "huge and varied realm," including books written for kids, at kids, and even "books written for adults that children discover and wind up loving most."