The 8,000 children's books in the Prange Collection include picture books, comic books, story books and children's games and coloring books. The children's book collection has been digitized.
SEARCH and ACCESS:
Digital Collections: Prange Digital Children's Book Collection. Full text is only available on the University of Maryland campus. When accessed off-campus, you can view the thumbnail image of the book cover and the bibliographic data for the book.
Digital Collections: NDL's Digital Collections Full text is only available onsite at the National Diet Library of Japan. When accessed offsite, you can view the bibliographic data for the book.
Online Catalog: Visit the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL) Research Navi for instructions on how to search for children's books via NDL-ONLINE.
Inventory: Title lists for the Prange children's books are available on NDL's International Library of Children's Literature webpage, which can be accessed through NDL Digital Collections.
Print Finding Aid: "Guide to the Gordon W. Prange Children's Book Collection." The guide is divided into 3 parts (story books, picture books, and comic books) and is organized in gojuon order by book title.
Inventory: Click here for an inventory of censored children's books. The inventory also includes manuscripts, galley proofs, and fragments of children's books.
