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Tove Jansson & The Responsibility of Children’s Literature
On June 27, attend the exhibition opening panel for "Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open." Authors, illustrators and editors will discuss Jansson's influential work and consider the field of children's literature more broadly.
[Civic Center Book Shop, Pierrepont Street near Fulton Street], December 15, 1958, gelatin silver print,
V1974.4.886; John D. Morrell photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
"He’s sort of a crazy guy," said Walter Goldwater about Irving Binkin, the proprietor of Civic Center Book Shop, in New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater. "And has a great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it."
The "great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it," Civic Center Book Shop was…