Carla Hayden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Carla Hayden

Tis the season for Charles Dickens! What's your favorite Dickens novel? A Christmas Carol? David Copperfield? Oliver Twist? A Tale of Two Cities? From the @librarycongress collection: Charles Dickens's walking stick with a carved ivory head. https://t.co/1Oz3SR8qLO https://t.co/QQGx1h5HWm

Carla Hayden

>@idinamenzel we would be “over the moon” if you can visit the @librarycongress to see the Jonathan Larson papers while you're in Washington for @CapitalPrideDC. We will be changed “for good.” The Library staff is "mooing" inspired by your "Rent" character Maureen. (1/2) 🧵 https://t.co/F71fzlx3o6

Carla Hayden

“Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot…” From @librarycongress collection: The Grinch first appeared in book form and in an issue of Redbook magazine in 1957; both were published by Random House. https://t.co/i9CDjxFGve

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Carla Hayden

From the @librarycongress collection: First and only edition of the very scarce first book by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. He published “Oak and Ivy” at at the age of 21 at his own expense and attracted the attention of Frederick Douglass. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/5eqhWNGcjW

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Carla Hayden

Tis the season for Charles Dickens! What's your favorite Dickens novel? A Christmas Carol? David Copperfield? Oliver Twist? A Tale of Two Cities? From the @librarycongress collection: Charles Dickens's walking stick with a carved ivory head. https://t.co/1Oz3SR8qLO https://t.co/QQGx1h5HWm

Carla Hayden

This is one of my favorite items in the @librarycongress Rare Books Collection: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, In 1773, Wheatley became the first African American woman to publish a book.  #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/3GzVMgGAIu

Carla Hayden

Books can literally save lives. From the @librarycongress Rare Books Division: 1913 French pocket edition of “Kim,” by Rudyard Kipling, deflected a bullet and saved the life of a French legionnaire by a mere 20 pages during a WWI artillery attack. https://t.co/nf2XH0pplM https://t.co/074tmIyasr

Carla Hayden

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ @librarycongress is the home of this first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses with a beautiful binding and drawing of a map of Dublin. For more info here’s a video of this extraordinary 1st edition from the Rare Books Division: https://t.co/475T54AUda https://t.co/mYBw8kYEXu

Carla Hayden

Tis the season for Charles Dickens! What's your favorite Dickens novel? A Christmas Carol? David Copperfield? Oliver Twist? A Tale of Two Cities? From the @librarycongress collection: Charles Dickens's walking stick with a carved ivory head. https://t.co/1Oz3SR8qLO https://t.co/QQGx1h5HWm

Carla Hayden

Books can literally save lives. From the @librarycongress Rare Books Division: 1913 French pocket edition of “Kim,” by Rudyard Kipling, deflected a bullet and saved the life of a French legionnaire by a mere 20 pages during a WWI artillery attack. https://t.co/nf2XH0pplM https://t.co/074tmIyasr