[Collection of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., broadsides promoting books, reading, and support for public libraries].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr., artist, printmaker.

Contributor:

• Kennedy Prints! (Firm), printer.

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Libraries.
• Reading.
• Books.
• African American printmakers--21st century.
• Prints--21st century--Specimens.

Genre:

• Broadsides.

Physical Description:

[15] sheets ([15] pages) ; 21 x 15 cm

Place of Publication:

[Detroit, Michigan] : [Kennedy Prints], [approximately 2010]

Language Note:

Thirteen sheets in English; two in Spanish.

Summary:

Set of 15 light brown chipboard cards (each approximately 21 x 15 cm) on which, against a background of colored decorative elements, a quotation or exhortation regarding reading, books, or libraries is printed in black.

Contents:

• Book lovers never go to bed alone
• Abre libros abre fronteras
• Los libros son mi mundo
• Public libraries build community
• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life / Henry Ward Beecher
• Libraries are not made; they grow / Augustine Birrell
• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free / Frederick Douglas
• Your library is your paradise / Desiderius Erasmus
• Read in order to live / Gustave Flaubert
• Books may well be the only true magic / Alice Hoffman
• One of the most subersive institutions in the United States is the public library / bell hooks
• The love of libraries, like all loves, must be learned / Alberto Manguel
• When in doubt, go to the library / J.K. Rowling
• The world was hers for the reading / Betty Smith
• My alma mater was books, a good library / Malcolm X.

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger. Imprint information supplied from bookseller's description.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Walnut Street Paper.
• Kislak Center copy has bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in.

OCLC:

1474741161