Friends of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books

The 10th Albert Lahmer Memorial Lecture is themed “Pop-Ups, Wheels, Tabs, and Flaps: Bringing Motion to Books” and features Ann Montanaro Staples who will present an illustrated talk on the history of pop-ups. She is the founder and director of The Movable Book Society, a world-wide organization that has been promoting pop-up books since 1993. Ann Montanaro Staples is considered the preeminent authority on movable books and an avid pop-up book collector, researcher and author. Her collection of pop-up books currently numbers about 4,500 individual titles. She is the author of the following books:

• Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 1993)
• Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography, Supplement 1, 1991-1997 (Scarecrow Press, 2000).

Admission is free. Pleas join us:

Thursday April 18, 2013
8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Lillian H. Smith 

For more information, please contact The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books at 416-393-7753.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Osborne Collection (Toronto).

The fold, cut, and repeat night with New York Times best-selling author Matthew Reinhart on Thursday November 29th, 2012 was a huge success. He talked about the process of how he created his popular pop-up books including his most recent work Star Wars: A Pop-up Guide to the Galaxy. It was presented for The Sixth Annual Sybille Pantazzi Memorial Lecture.

For those who were unable to attend the event, relive the evening by viewing the videos.

Part 1: Fold, Cut, Repeat: A Night with paper engineer Matthew Reinhart

Part 2: Fold, Cut, Repeat: A Night with paper engineer Matthew Reinhart

Videos were recorded at Lillian H. Smith Branch and courtesy of Toronto Public Library, with the permission of Matthew Reinhart. Filmed by Blaine McKenzie.

The sixth annual Sybille Pantazzi lectures features New York Times best selling author and pop-up book artist, Matthew Reinhart. His most recent works include:

• DC super heroes: The ultimate pop-up book 1st ed.
• Encyclopedia mythologica: Dragons & monsters 1st ed
• Gods & heroes 1st ed
• Star Wars: A galactic pop-up adventure

Let him take you on an eye-opening journey into his world of creating pop-up books.

“Fold, Cut, Repeat: A Night With Paper Engineer Matthew Reinhart”
*** NEW DATE *** Thursday November 29th, 2012  *** NEW DATE ***
8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Lillian H. Smith Branch. Community Room

The lecture is free, but attendance is limited so please arrive early.

For more information, please contact The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books at 416-393-7753.

Dr. Maria Tatar, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, and author of many books speaks on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Grimms’ “Kinder- und Hausmärchen” (Children’s and Household Tales).

Dr. Tatar is an authority on the works of The Brothers Grimm. She teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children’s Literature. Her books include:

• The annotated Brothers Grimm
• Enchanted hunters: The power of stories in childhood
• The hard facts of the Grimms’ fairy tales
• Off with their heads!: Fairy tales and the culture of childhood

Join us for the 25th Helen E. Stubbs Memorial Lecture:

“Magical and Mythical: 200 Years of the Brothers Grimm.”
Thursday October 25, 2012
8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Lillian H. Smith Branch

The lecture is free. For more information, please contact The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books at 416-393-7753.