Selections from the Children's Literature Collection, Special Collections Library

Presented by the Ann Arbor District Library and the Special Collections Library, this exhibit explains and illustrates the evolution of multicultural children's literature from its origins in the folklore and folktales of a given people through the contemporary literature of each culture.

The exhibit is on display at the Ann Arbor District Library (Downtown).

Ardis was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Carl and Elenndea Proffer in 1971. The Proffers had two goals for their publishing house. The first was to publish in Russian the "lost library" of twentieth-century Russian literature that had been censored and removed from Soviet libraries, including works by Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Vladimir Nabokov. The second was to bring translations of contemporary writers working in the Soviet Union to American scholars and the West.