Animals Are Us: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature; Celebrating the Peter J. Solomon Collection

CONTRIBUTORS
H. Nichols B. Clark (Harvard Class of 1969) is the founding
director and chief curator (emeritus) of The Eric Carle Museum of
Picture Book Art. A trained art historian, he has published extensively
on American art and illustrations for children’s books.
Anne-Marie Eze is the director of Scholarly and Public
Programs at Houghton Library, where she oversees exhibitions and
publications. She is a 2017 recipient of an Association of Art Museum
Curators Award for Excellence for an exhibition.
Thomas Hyry is the Associate University Librarian for Archives
and Special Collections and Florence Fearrington Librarian of
Houghton Library.
Meghan Melvin is the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Curator of
Design in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. She has curated four exhibitions on children’s book
illustration art since 2016 and is the author of a new monograph on
Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen (2021).
Peter J. Solomon holds a BA, cum laude, from Harvard
College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is chairman
of PJ SOLOMON, the investment banking company he founded in
1989. He started his career at Lehman Brothers, left to become NY
City Deputy Mayor under Mayor Edward I. Koch, then Counselor to
the US Treasury under President Jimmy Carter, returning to Lehman,
where he was vice chairman, in 1981. Mr. Solomon currently serves on
the boards of numerous organizations and has served as a member
of the board of overseers of Harvard University. Since 1981 he has
actively collected children’s literature and illustration art.
Mary Ann Cappiello is a professor of language and literacy at
Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches
courses in children’s literature and literacy methods. She is the former
chair of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Orbis
Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.
Katie Egan Cunningham is professor of literacy and English
education at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where
she teaches courses in children’s literature and literacy methods. She
is the author of several books for educators, including Story: Still the
Heart of Literacy Learning.
Grace Enriquez is a professor of language and literacy at Lesley
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she is the Children’s
Literature Feature Editor for the International Literacy Association
(ILA) journal The Reading Teacher.
Erika Thulin Dawes is a professor of language and literacy at
Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches
courses in children’s literature and early literacy and serves as the
program director for early childhood education.
Mary Ann, Erika, Grace, and Katie blog at The Classroom Bookshelf,
a School Library Journal blog, where they develop rich connections
between high-quality children’s literature and classroom learning.
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