Excellent Children's Book Art Exhibit at L.A. Public Library

The Los Angeles Public Library is hosting until Sept. 14 "Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art," an impressive exhibit of original children's book illustrations. It contains paintings and drawings by Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat), David Wiesner (Flotsam), Chris Van Allsburg (The Mysteries of Harris Burdick), Tomie de Paola, Pat Cummings, Eric Carle, Harry Bliss, Ezra Jack Keats, and some 70 more illustrators. It's also free! The L.A. Public Library also houses one of the best collection of children's books in Southern California and grandiose paintings by Golden Age illustrator, Dean Cornwell. "Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art" is a traveling show curated by art historian Jane Bayard Curley, picture book historian Leonard S. Marcus and librarian Caroline Ward, and organized by the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY, and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA.