ARNE NIXON CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN S LITERATURE HENRY MADDEN LIBRARY CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO RUTH LERCHER BORNSTEIN 1973 2012, undated IDENTIFICATION: ANC0037 VOLUME: 4 linear feet ACQUISITION: The papers were donated by Ruth Lercher Bornstein in June 2013. ACCESS: COPYRIGHT: PROCESSED BY: The papers are open for research. Copyright has not been transferred to California State University, Fresno. Maesoon Zaghmouri, Lena Zaghmouri, Cindy Vang, Ana Vega, and Mai Soua Lee, 2014. Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 1
Provenance These papers were given by Ruth Lercher Bornstein to the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children s Literature in June 2013. Restrictions Collection is non-circulating; in-house research use only. Copyright The collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. Code). Reproductions can be made only if they are to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials, other than that noted above. Biographical Sketch Ruth Lercher Bornstein was born April 28, 1927 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She moved to New London, Wisconsin when she was ten. She loved to draw as a child and was called the class artist in junior high and high school where she would create illustrations for the school newspaper and yearbook. In 1948, Bornstein received a Bachelor s of Science in Art Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she also began to take an interest in poetry and writing. After graduating, she moved to New York City for a year where she taught art classes for children at a Settlement House and also studied at the Art Students League. After trips to Israel and Paris, she met and married her husband Harry Bornstein. Together, the couple attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Soon after she gave birth to her daughter, Noa, and later her three sons, Jonah, Adam, and Jesse. The family moved to the Los Angeles area where she discovered her interest for children s books while reading to her own children. While Bornstein did not think she would ever create her own book, she found herself making whimsical pictures of little green elephants and rabbits peeking out of holes. She was also intrigued by the wonders of the life cycle happening within her own garden. She began to write simple words and soon started making these words and pictures into books. Her first book, Indian Bunny, was published in 1973. Ruth Lercher Bornstein has published numerous picture books, including her well-known book, Little Gorilla. She has also displayed her artwork at many exhibits in such venues as Comara Gallery, Los Angeles; Rose Cafe, Venice; Santa Monica Main Library; Storyopolis, Los Angeles; Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, to name a few. She received the Southern California Council for Literature for Children and Young People Award twice. She also taught classes about creating picture books at U.C.L.A. Extension and also at U.S.C. Isomata. Sources Ruth Bornstein s website: http://www.ruthlercherbornstein.com Something About the Author: volume 14 pages 44-45. Scope and Content Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 2
Ruth Lercher Bornstein s materials are mostly related to her published books, with illustrations to one unpublished book and one unknown illustration. These materials have been divided up into five series: Books, Illustrations, Additional Materials, Unpublished Books, and Miscellaneous. Typescripts were organized in ascending order if possible. The correspondence, notes, and research materials that went along with a particular book were placed directly after the corresponding typescripts. The Published Book and Illustrated series are arranged alphabetically by title. The Unpublished Book series has illustrations for one book, Rachel s Hawk. The Miscellaneous series has one unknown illustration, and materials from CD 3. Related Collection This collection includes five autographed books by Ruth Lercher Bornstein. These books can be found in the Arne Nixon Center collection. A separation list of all the donated books can be found in Box2/Folder26. Separate Material Oversized materials can be found in Boxes 3-8. Separated material includes illustrations, color separations, hand drawn color separations, dust jackets, specifications, transparencies, and galleys. Location All original materials and artifacts are stored in the Special Collections Research Center on the 4 th floor, South Wing of the Henry Madden Library, Arne Nixon Center on the 3 rd floor, South Wing of the Henry Madden Library. Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 3
Series and Subseries A. Books 1. Annabelle (1978) 2. A Beautiful Seashell (1990) 3. Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me (2002) 4. The Dancing Man (1978) 5. The Dream of the Little Elephant (1977) 6. Indian Bunny (1973) 7. Jim (1978) 8. Little Gorilla (1976) 9. Of Course a Goat (1980) 10. Rabbit s Good News (1995) 11. The Seedling Child (1987) 12. The Summer Everything Changed (2012) 13. That s How It Is When We Draw: Poems and Pictures (1997) B. Illustrations 1. Flocks of Birds (1981) 2. Mama One, Mama Two (1982) 3. Mommy, Daddy, Me (1988) 4. Son-of-Thunder : An Old Lapp Tale Retold (1974) 5. Summer Is... (1983) 6. Your Owl Friend (1977) C. Additional Materials 1. List of autographed books donated by Ruth Bornstein D. Unpublished Books 1. Rachel s Hawk E. Miscellaneous 1. Unknown illustration by Ruth Bornstein Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 4
Box Inventory Box/Folder A. Books 1. Annabelle by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Harper & Row Group, 1978) 1/1 Unbounded illustrated typescript of Annabelle with title pages, and pencil and charcoal sketches, 19 sheets 2. A Beautiful Seashell by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Harper & Row, 1990) 1/2 Typescript of A Beautiful Seashell, manually annotated with taped handwritten Post-its, 2 sheets 1/3 Unbounded illustrated typescripts of A Beautiful Seashell, manually annotated with title page, blank pages, dedication, and pencil illustrations, 2 items 1/4 Unbounded illustrated typescript of A Beautiful Seashell, manually annotated with front and back covers illustrated with pencil, chalk, and pastel; title page; dedication; and pencil illustrations, 21 sheets 1/5 Separation list for 3/1-3/5, 1 item 3/1 Illustrations for A Beautiful Seashell, 9 chalk illustrations, 1 pen sketch, 1 photocopied sketch, 1 pencil sketch, and 1 pen and pencil sketch, 15 sheets 3/2 Illustrations for A Beautiful Seashell; 3 color pencil sketches, 2 labeled page 18 and 19, and 27; 3 pencil sketches; 12 pastel illustrations, 5 labeled page 8, 14 and 15, 18 and 19, 24 and 25, and 30 and 31, 18 sheets 3/3 14 vacuum sealed illustrations for A Beautiful Seashell, 14 sheets 3/4 Pastel illustrations for A Beautiful Seashell, 3 items 3/5 Specifications for A Beautiful Seashell book jackets, text, and sample text, 2 sheets 1/6 Sample pencil drawn book jacket of A Beautiful Seashell with handwritten annotations, 1 sheet 1/7 Sample dedication with different size fonts, and specifications for copyright, dedication, book jacket, and text, 2 items Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 5
3. Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Marshall Cavendish, 2002) 1/8 Book cover illustrations and sketches for chapters, manually annotated with pencil, charcoal, and pastel drawings, 8 items 1/9 Separation list for 3/6, 1 item 3/6 8 cover illustration ideas, and three dust jackets, 11 items 4. The Dancing Man by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Seabury Press, 1978) 1/10 Unbounded illustrated typescript of The Dancing Man when book was called The Silver Shoes with handwritten note, blank pages, and charcoal illustrations, 19 sheets 1/11 Separation list for 4/1, 1 item 4/1 Pastel illustrations and sketches for The Dancing Man, 36 sheets 5. The Dream of the Little Elephant by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Seabury Press, 1977) 1/12 Unbounded illustrated typescript of The Dream of the Little Elephant with title page, blank page, and charcoal illustrations, 17 sheets 6. Indian Bunny by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Scholastic Inc., 1973) 1/13 Unbounded illustrated typescript of Indian Bunny with illustrations for title, copyright, dedication, and blank pages, and charcoal illustrations, 21 sheets 1/14 Separation list for 4/2, 1 item 4/2 Illustrations for Indian Bunny in charcoal with hand drawn color separations, manually annotated, 38 sheets 7. Jim by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Seabury Press, 1978) 1/15 Unbounded illustrated typescript of Jim with title and blank page, and charcoal illustrations, 19 sheets 8. Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Clarion Books, 1976) 1/16 Separation list for 4/3, 1 item 4/3 Sample dust jackets for Little Gorilla, one in English and one in Japanese; sample page of Little Gorilla; illustrations for Little Gorilla in charcoal with red and green hand drawn color separations, 27 items Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 6
1/17 Photocopied sample page of Little Gorilla illustration, 1 sheet 1/18 Color separation on transparencies, created for Turning Pages exhibit, 2014, 3 sheets 1/19-1/19 Corresponding materials: 1/19 Handwritten correspondence from Linda Brady with color samples taped to page, 1 sheet 9. Of Course a Goat by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980) 1/20 Unbounded illustrated typescript of Of Course a Goat with title and blank pages; and pencil and pastel illustrations, 19 sheets 1/21 Separation list for 4/4, 1 item 4/4 Pencil illustrations for Of Course A Goat, 16 sheets 10. Rabbit s Good News by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Clarion Books, 1995) 1/22 Separation list for 5/1, 1 item 5/1 Pastel illustrations for Rabbit s Good News, 15 sheets 11. The Seedling Child by Ruth Bornstein (San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987) 1/23 Separation list for 6/1, 1 item 6/1 Preliminary and final illustrations for The Seedling Child, 22 sheets 12. The Summer Everything Changed by Ruth Bornstein (Ashland, OR : Wellstone Press, 2012) 1/24 Separation list for 6/2, 1 item 6/2 Ideas for front cover of The Summer Everything Changed, 9 sheets 1/25-2/12 Material from CD 1: 1/25-1/26 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/25 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page and prologue, 66 sheet 1/26 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 69 sheets 1/27-1/28 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/27 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page and prologue, 66 sheet Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 7
1/28 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 69 sheets 1/29-1/30 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/29 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page and prologue, 67 sheet 1/30 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 68 sheets 1/31-1/32 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/31 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page, epigraph, and prologue, 64 sheets 1/32 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 64 sheets 1/33-1/34 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/33 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page, epigraph, and prologue, 64 sheets 1/34 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 64 sheets 1/35 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page and afterword, 97 sheets 1/36 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page quote and afterword, 57 sheets 1/37-1/38 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/37 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title pages, list of other books by Ruth Bornstein, copyright and dedication page, epigraph, and foreword, 66 sheets 1/38 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, and about the author pages, 64 sheets 1/39-1/40 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed: 1/39 First half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with title page, and epigraph, 58 sheets 1/40 Second half of typescript of The Summer Everything Changed with afterword, 60 sheets 1/41 Typescript of The Summer Everything Changed, 86 sheets 2/1 Foreword, research, correspondence, and Parent Pop! newsletters, 43 sheets 2/2 AppleWorks 6 manual, 66 sheets 2/3-2/6 Copy of The Heaven Novelettos by M.B. Goffstein: 2/3 First part of The Heaven Novelettos with title pages, dedication, copyright page, table of contents, and Life at the Waldorf section, 46 sheets 2/4 Second part of The Heaven Novelettos with Po Chu-i at the Waldorf section with notes for Po Chu-i at the Waldorf, 55 sheets 2/5 Third part of The Heaven Novelettos with Miss Go Chi in Heaven section and notes for Miss Go Chi in Heaven, 53 sheets 2/6 Fourth part of The Heaven Novelettos with Po Chu-i in Heaven section and notes for Po Chu-i in Heaven, 53 sheets 2/7-2/9 Canon camera users guide: 2/7 First part of users guide, 50 sheets Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 8
2/8 Second part of users guide, 50 sheets 2/9 Third part of users guide, 48 sheets 2/10 Research, proposal to Santa Monica Library, and correspondence, 43 sheets 2/11 Flyer for reading of The Summer Everything Changed at Diesel Bookstore, Correspondence, and Association of Jewish Libraries Review newsletter, 61 sheets 2/12 Prologue for The Summer Everything Changed, book jacket samples, flyer for book reading at Diesel bookstore, and announcement from Wellstone Press, 24 sheets 2/13-2/14 Materials from CD 3: 2/13 Poems, resumes, and Ruth Bornstein s bio, 15 sheets 2/14 CDs 1-4, 4 items 2/15 Handwritten note, dust jacket ideas for The Summer Everything Changed tiled Me So Far, One Drop in the Ocean, Remember the Boys, and The Summer I Found Out with Post-its, 28 items 2/16 Research for The Summer Everything Changed, copies of three books, one sheet of newspaper and copies of newspaper clippings, one sheet of copied typed cutouts, sheets of copies of clipped pictures and sketches for book cover, 50 items 13. That s How It Is When We Draw by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Clarion Books, 1997) 2/17 Separation list for 7/1, 1 item 7/1 Illustrations for That s How It Is When We Draw; using watercolor, pastel, pencil, and marker; 21 sheets B. Illustrations 1. Flocks of Birds by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated Ruth Bornstein (New York : Crowell, 1981) 2/18 Separation list for 8/1, 1 item 8/1 2 color separations, hand drawn blue and purple color separations, 11 sheets 2. Mama One, Mama Two by Patricia MacLachlan and illustrated by Ruth Bornstein (New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1982) 2/19 Unbounded illustrated typescript with title and dedication pages, and pencil sketches, 19 sheets 2/20 Separation list for 8/2, 1 item 8/2 Illustrations for Mama One, Mama Two using chalk and pencil with hand drawn color separations, 19 sheets Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 9
3. Mommy, Daddy, Me by Lyn Littlefield Hoopes and illustrated by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Harper & Row, 1988) 2/21 Separation list for 8/3, 1 item 8/3 Illustrations for Mommy, Daddy, Me, one hand drawn color separation, three chalk illustrations, and one letter taped to back of illustration, 5 sheets 4. Son-Of-Thunder: An Old Lapp Tale Retold by Ethel Kharasch McHale and illustrated by Ruth Lercher Bornstein (Chicago : Childrens Press, 1974) 2/22 Separation list for 8/4, 1 item 8/4 Illustrations for Son-Of-Thunder using pastel and pencil, 14 sheets 5. Summer Is by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Crowell, 1983) 2/23 Unbounded illustrated typescript of Summer Is with handwritten note about the storyline, characters, illustrations, and size of book; pen and pencil illustrations; title and dedication page; and jacket illustrations, 18 sheets 2/24 Separation list for 8/5, 1 item 8/5 Illustrations using pastel and pencil, and one galley for Summer Is, 2 items 6. Your Owl Friend by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrated by Ruth Bornstein (New York : Harper & Row, 1977) 2/25 Separation list for 8/6, 1 item 8/6 Illustrations for Your Owl Friend using chalk, pastel, and pencil, 11 sheets C. Additional Materials 2/26 Separation list for 5 autographed books donated by Ruth Bornstein [shelved in the Arne Nixon Center Collection], 1 item D. Unpublished Books 1. Rachel s Hawk by Ruther Bornstein 2/27 Pencil and pen illustrations, 5 sheets Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 10
E. Miscellaneous 2/28 Separation list for 8/7, 1 item 8/7 Unknown illustration using pastel, chalk, and pencil by Ruth Bornstein, dated 1977, 1 item Ruth Bornstein Papers, ANC0037, page 11