Junior Gleaners and Beaver Books:
The colourful children’s books of Fredericton’s Brunswick Press in the 1950s and 60s
H. R. Stewart Exhibition Room
5th floor of the Harriet Irving Library
UNB Fredericton
This book/archival exhibit of Brunswick Press materials follows the Milham Lecture presented by Susan Fisher, Curator of the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection in the Harriet Irving Library, UNB Fredericton.
With over 70 titles for children, ranging from newly illustrated classic poems and tales to locally authored poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Fredericton’s Brunswick Press was an early innovator in Canada, defining what regional children’s publishing could be.
- Read the CBC interview of Susan Fisher regarding the Brunswick Press books.
- Read about the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection at the Harriet Irving Library.
- Read the CBC interview of Eileen Wallace.
- Read about the Milham Lectures.