Virginia Haviland: Education and Career, Favorite Fairy Tales Around the World Series, Other Books, Awards and Memberships, Death, In Memory, and a List of Books by Author Virginia Haviland

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Virginia Haviland (May 21, 1911 – January 6, 1988) was an authority in Children's literature and specialized in fairy tales. She is best known for her Favorite Fairy Tales series, featuring 16 countries.

Born in Rochester, NY to William J. Haviland & Bertha M. Esten, she grew up mainly in Massachusetts. "During her childhood, she traveled abroad and spent time with two aunts who entertained international visitors in their home. The early influence of contact with international visitors may have influenced her adult interest in traveling and working with international colleagues."

Education and Career more less

Virginia Haviland held a BA in economics and mathematics from Cornell University (1933).

She became a children's librarian in 1934 for the Boston Public Library, under the tutelage of Alice Jordan, founder of children's services there. She was a branch librarian and children's librarian at Boston from 1948 to 1952, and a reader's advisor for children from 1952 to 1963. She studied folklore under Albert B. Lord at Hartford. In 1949 she gave the New England Library Association's Hewins Lecture for research in the history of children's literature about nineteenth-century travel books for children, and taught Library Service to Children and Reading Guidance for Children at Simmons College School of Library Science from 1957 to 1962 where there is now a Virginia Haviland Scholarship. She also reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine for about thirty years.

She was the chair of the Children's Services Division of the American Library Association (ALA) from 1954 to 1955, and as such attended conferences of the International Board on Books for Children (now called the International Board on Books for Young People), the International Federation of Library Associations, and the Institutions Roundtable for Children's Literature Documentation Centers.

She was also chair of the Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee of the ALA from 1953—1954, and held positions of authority in other national and international professional organizations, including positions on many committees and juries that selected outstanding children's books. Her "credo was 'The right book for the right child at the right time.' She had high standards by which to judge children's literature and also accepted newer forms."

She judged the New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival Awards from 1955 to 1957, as well as the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Book World Children's Spring Book Festival Awards, and the National Book Awards (1969). She was instrumental in beginning the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award.

In 1962 she was invited down to Washington D.C. to found the Center for Children's Literature at the Library of Congress. She became its first Head in 1963, and worked for the Library of Congress until her retirement in 1981.

Favorite Fairy Tales Around the World Series more less

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Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Fairy Tale Treasury. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs. London: Hamish Hamilton, c1972.
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories. Translated by Eric Christian Haugaard. Foreword by Virginia Haviland. New York: Doubleday & Co., c1974.
Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Openhearted Audience: Ten Authors Talk about Writing for Children. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1980. (Featuring: Introduction by Virginia Haviland; "Only Connect" by P.L. Travers; "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author" (an interview of Maurice Sendak by Virginia Haviland); "Between Family and Fantasy: An Author's Perspectives on Children's Books" by Joan Aiken; "Portrait of a Poet: Hans Christian Andersen and His Fairy Tales" by Erik Christian Haugaard; "Sources and Responses" by Ivan Southall; "The Child and the Shadow" by Ursula K. Le Guin; "Illusion and Relatiy" by Virginia Hamilton; "Under Two Hats" by John Rowe Townsend; "Into Something Rich and Strange: Of Dreams, Art, and the Unconscious" by Eleanor Cameron; and "The Lords of Time" by Jill Paton Walsh.)
Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughlan. Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry & Pictures: Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, c1974.
Haviland, Virginia (ed). North American Legends. New York: Putnam Pub Group Juv, c1981. / (Faber Book of...) London: Faber & Faber, c1979.
Haviland, Virginia (ed). Children & Poetry: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1969.
Haviland, Virginia. William Penn: Founder and Friend. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, c1952.
Haviland, Virginia. Children and Literature Views and Reviews. Scott, Foresman, c1973.
Haviland, Virginia. The Stone of Fictory and Other Tales of Padraic Colum. New York: McGraw Hill, c1966.
Bechtel, Louise Seaman. Books in Search of Children - Speeches and Essays by Louise Seaman Bechtel. Edited by Virginia Haviland. New York: MacMillan, c1969 / London: Hamish Hamilton, c1970.
Elleman, Barbara and Virginia Haviland. Children's Books of International Interest. Chicago: American Library Association, c1972.
Haviland, Virginia. Children's Literature - A Guide to Reference Sources. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1966.
Haviland, Virginia. Ruth Sawyer, a Walck Monograph. New York: Henry Z. Walck, c1965.
Field, Carolyn W., Virginia Haviland, Elizabeth Nesbitt. Subject Collections in Children's Literature. American Library Association. Committee on National Planning for Special Collections of Children's Books. New York: R.R. Bowker and Co., c1969.
Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughland. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a Centennial for Tom Sawyer, an Annotated Selected Bibliography. Washington DC: Library of Congress, c1976.
Haviland, Virginia (ed). The Best Children's Books: 1964-1978 With 1979 Addenda. Illustrated by Debbie Dieneman. New York: University Press Books, c1981.
Blishen, Edward and Nancy. A Treasury of Stories For Five Year Olds. Illustrated by Polly Noakes. (Includes "The Cat and the Parrot" by Virginia Haviland.) New York: Kingfisher, c1989.

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Total Books: 85

2009 - The Travelogue Storybook of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151523778
ISBN-10: 1151523771

2006 - Children's Books of International Interest a Selection From Four Decades of American Publishing (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780838902585
ISBN-10: 0838902588
Genre: Reference

1999 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Japan (Other) → Hardcover

1999 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain (Other) → Paperback, Hardcover

1997 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Russia (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844668819
ISBN-10: 0844668818
Genre: Children's Books

1996 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Greece [Favorite Fairy Tales Series , No 14] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688125974
ISBN-10: 0688125972
Genre: Children's Books

1996 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy [Favorite Fairy Tales Series , No 15] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688125998
ISBN-10: 0688125999
Genre: Children's Books

1996 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway [Favorite Fairy Tales Series , No 16] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688126070
ISBN-10: 0688126073
Genre: Children's Books

1996 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Denmark (Other) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780606092647
ISBN-10: 0606092641

1995 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland (Other) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780606075039
ISBN-10: 0606075038

1995 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia [Favorite Fairy Tales, Book 10] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688125936
ISBN-10: 068812593X
Genre: Children's Books

1995 - Favourite Fairy Tales Told in India (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780688126001
ISBN-10: 0688126006
Genre: Children's Books

1995 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Poland (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688126025
ISBN-10: 0688126022
Genre: Children's Books

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1994 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688125981
ISBN-10: 0688125980
Genre: Children's Books

1994 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Sweden (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688126063
ISBN-10: 0688126065
Genre: Children's Books

1994 - Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780688125967
ISBN-10: 0688125964
Genre: Children's Books

1981 - North American Legends (Hardcover) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780529054579
ISBN-10: 0529054574
Genres: Children's Books, Nonfiction