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Virginia Haviland was born on 21 May, 1911 in Rochester, New York, US, is an American author and librarian. Discover Virginia Haviland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Author, Editor, Librarian
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May, 1911
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Rochester, New York, US
Date of death 1988
Died Place Washington, D.C., US
Nationality United States

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1911

Virginia Haviland (May 21, 1911 – January 6, 1988) was an American librarian and writer who became an international authority in children's literature.

She chaired the prestigious Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee, traveled and wrote extensively.

Haviland is also well known for her Favorite Fairy Tales series, featuring stories from sixteen countries.

Virginia Haviland was born in Rochester, New York, to William J. Haviland and 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.

1933

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

1934

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.

1948

She was a branch librarian and children's librarian at Boston from 1948 to 1952, and a reader's adviser for children from 1952 to 1963.

Haviland studied folklore under Albert B. Lord at Harvard.

1949

In 1949 Haviland 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 University School of Library Science from 1957 to 1962.

She also reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine for about thirty years.

1950

In the 1950s, Virginia Haviland was a pioneer in attempting to collect international fairy tales into a series of volumes that were more accessible to children.

1953

She was also chair of the Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee of the ALA from 1953 to 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."

1954

Haviland chaired 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.

1955

Haviland 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.

1959

While still a Boston librarian, Haviland submitted a proposal for her Favorite Fairy Tales series to Little, Brown and Company, who accepted and published her books in hard cover ca 1959–71.

1962

In 1962 Haviland was invited to found the Center for Children's Literature at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

1963

She became its first Head in 1963, and worked for the Library of Congress until her retirement in 1981.

In a note to Haviland's cousin, author C. S. Haviland, fellow Regina Medal-winning author Jane Yolen wrote: "She was funny, acerbic, brilliant, and did not suffer fools at all. She was also gracious, never condescending, and saw her calling (as a librarian) as one of the highest callings of all. Her knowledge of American and British children's literature—and folklore in particular—was encyclopedic. It's been years since she died, but I still think of her."

She reviewed for The Horn Book Magazine for almost thirty years and in 1963 was named Head of the Children's Book Section of the Library of Congress.

Ms. Haviland remained with the Library of Congress for nearly twenty years, and wrote and lectured about children's literature throughout her career.

1976

Haviland was awarded the Regina Medal "for continuous distinguished contribution to children's literature" from the Catholic Library Association in 1976, and the Grolier Award for "unusual contributions to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and young people" by the ALA that same year.

1982

She was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership 1982 "for her many accomplishments on behalf of children and for those professionals who work with children in the United States and throughout the world ... the Association joins her colleagues who have bestowed upon her the rank of Ambassador for Children's Books."

Her "interest and participation in the international arena was ahead of her time and gave the United States an established place in international children's library and literature organizations. She left a worthy legacy for children's literature at the Library of Congress at the culmination of her career."

1985

In 1985, Little, Brown and Company also published a single-volume sampling of her series called Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World.

1988

Virginia Haviland died of a stroke on January 6, 1988, in Washington, D.C. Her commitment to literature for young people continues to be recognized by the Virginia Haviland Scholarship for students in the Master of Arts in Children's Literature programs in the Ifill College at Simmons University.

1990

The books were republished in trade paperback by Beech Tree in the mid-1990s.

To compile her series, Virginia Haviland traveled around the world meeting with librarians, authors, and authorities in fairy tales.

The collection includes:

1994

From the 1994 Beechtree paperback reprint: "In recent decades, folk tales and fairy tales from all corners of the earth have been made available in a variety of handsome collections and in lavishly illustrated picture books. But in the 1950s, such a rich selection was not yet available. The classic fairy and folk tales were most often found in cumbersome books with small print and few illustrations. Helen Jones, then children's book editor at Little, Brown and Company, accepted a proposal from a Boston librarian for an ambitious series with a simple goal—to put an international selection of stories into the hands of children. The tales would be published in slim volumes, with wide margins and ample leading, and illustrated by a cast of contemporary artists. The result was a unique series of books intended for children to read by themselves—the Favorite Fairy Tales series.

Available only in hardcover for many years, the books have now been reissued in paperbacks that feature new illustrations and covers.

| The series embraces the stories of sixteen different countries: Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, India, France, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Japan, Scotland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Spain and Russia.

Some of these stories may seem violent or fantastical to our modern sensibilities, yet they often reflect the deepest yearnings and imaginings of the human mind and heart.

Virginia Haviland traveled abroad frequently and was able to draw upon librarians, storytellers, and writers in countries as far away as Japan to help her make her selections.

But she was also an avid researcher with a keen interest in rare books, and most of the stories she included in the series were found through a diligent search of old collections.

Ms. Haviland was associated with the Boston Public Library for nearly thirty years—as a children's and branch librarian, and eventually as Readers Advisor to Children.