‘The Little Red Hen’ by Elizabeth Orton Jones and illustrated in gouache by by J.P Miller is copyrighted 1954 by Random House. This original illustration is featured in the LSU Museum of Art’s exhibit, ‘Golden Legacy: Original Art from 80 Years of Golden Books.’
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Little Golden Book, ‘Little Boy With A Big Horn,’ copyright 1950 Random House, is featured in the exhibit
BY LAUREN CHERAMIE Staff writer
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Michelle Schulte remembers how every Little Golden Book included a complete list of the series’ titles on its back cover
Sometimes the list appeared inside the cover, but it didn’t matter to her as long as it was there.
“I always turned to the list and checked off all the Little Golden Books I had read,” said Schulte, the LSU Museum of Art’s curator
That was in her childhood, when each title represented a piece of magic bound in gold foil. Now this same magic fills the gallery as Schulte decides what to hang where during the installation of the museum’s latest exhibit, “Golden Legacy: Original Art from 80 Years of Golden Books.”
Generational impact
The show opens on Thursday and features 60 original illustrations from the little cardboard-covered children’s books with which millions of Americans grew up reading. This isn’t an exaggeration — generations of Americans not only grew up with these books but passed them down to their children and grandchildren. With this in mind, Schulte tried to design a show that would appeal to both children and adults.
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the exhibit.
‘GOLDEN LEGACY: ORIGINAL ART FROM 80 YEARS OF GOLDEN BOOKS’
Through May 25 at the LSU Museum of Art in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. l Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Tuesday through Wednesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. l
Admission is $5 for ages 13 and older and free for ages 12 and younger, university students with ID and veterans and their families with military ID l Call (225) 578-3000 or visit lsumoa.org
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Adults will become kids again as they walk through these imaginary landscapes from their childhoods. That’s the effect it’s had on Schulte, as well as the museum staff.
Childhood connections
Schulte walks through the gallery, stopping by author-illustrator Elizabeth Orton Jones’ illustrations for “Little Red Riding Hood.” These conjure special memories.
“We lived in Germany when I was a child, and I remember noticing how Little Red Riding Hood wore the same kind of German wear that I wore over there,” Schulte said. “I remember telling my mom, ‘Look, she’s wearing the same thing I’m wearing.’ There’s just something very European about the illustrations in that book, and I related to it as a child.”
She also shares her love of another favorite, “The Poky Little Puppy,” the 12th of the original Little Golden Books published in 1942.
“I think ‘The Poky Little Puppy’ is everyone’s favorite,” Schulte said “It still ranks as the most popular Little Golden Book today, and it’s amazing just how strong its staying power is The illustrations are still the same, and the story is still the same, and everyone still loves it.”
Celebrating 80 years
The exhibit was organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature in Abilene, Texas, and as mentioned in its title, celebrates Little Golden Books’ 80th anniversary Technically, the series is 83 now The show began traveling in 2022, exactly 80 years from the books’ first publishing date of 1942.
Joining “The Poky Little Puppy” in the original round of 12 titles were “Three Little Kittens,” “Bedtime Stories,” “Mother Goose,” “Prayers for Children,” “The Little Red Hen,” “Nursery Songs,” “The Alphabet from A to Z,” “The Golden Book of Fairy Tales,” “Baby’s Book of Objects,” “The Animals of Farmer Jones” and “This Little Piggy and Other Counting Rhymes.”
The launch year also marked the United States’ first full year of involvement in World War II While war raged in Europe, Little Golden Books were wielding magic at home.
Affordable high quality
The books also represent a significant milestone in publishing history, marking the first time high-quality illustrated books were made available to millions of youngsters and their parents at affordable prices. The idea to produce colorful, durable and affordable children’s books was developed by Georges Duplaix, who headed the Artists and Writers Guild, Inc., a division of Western Publishing. Books for kids were selling for $2 and $3 at the time, which would translate to about $38 and $58 today Duplaix teamed up with some fellow artists and writers on the project, while Western Publishing and Simon & Schuster produced the books in a joint publishing venture.
Each Golden Book consisted of 42 pages with 28 printed in two colors and 14 in four colors. They were bound with staples with spines wrapped in the books’ signature gold foil They sold for 25 cents each.
Moms could afford them
“I remember my mother reading a Little Golden Book to me as a child, because that’s what they could afford,” Schulte said. “She didn’t have very many books, and the books she did have were generally Little Golden Books or books that she shared amongst her siblings. Then I started picking out my own. Now my son loves Little Golden Books.”
She grabs a book from a table filled with Golden Book titles provided by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature to complement the exhibit.
“This is my son’s favorite,” she said, flipping through the pages of ‘The
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Monster at the End of This,’ starring ‘Sesame Street’s’ garbage can character, Grover As Golden Books went on, they stuck with stories and illustrations either based on classics or things that came out of their own publishing company.”
Eventually, Golden Books started to partner with corporations like Disney Hanna Barbera and the Sesame Warehouse. This move, Schulte said, gave the company staying power with the rise of television.
The one about Taylor Swift
How relevant are the Little Golden Books today? The answer can be found downstairs in the LSU Museum Store.
“Our best-selling Golden Book is the one about Taylor Swift,” museum manager LeAnn Russo said. The book, simply titled “Taylor Swift,” features an illustration of the megastar making heart hands on the cover The shop is selling it alongside classic Little Golden Book titles and such newer editions as “Elvis Presley.”
The shop also offers Golden Bookthemed memorabilia, including Tshirts and totes, and has designated a comfy rug-covered corner as a reading station for kids.
Artists escaped war
While the illustrations upstairs are nothing less than wonder-filled worlds, the lives of some of their artists were quite the opposite.
“It was wartime, and a lot of these artists had to escape Europe,” Schulte said. “They came to the United States,
Curator Michelle Schulte opens Tibor Gergely’s ‘The Great Big Fire Engine Book’ to the page that features his original illustration in the LSU Museum of Art’s exhibit, ‘Golden Legacy: Original Art from 80 Years of Golden Books.
and while they were artists in their own right in their countries, they had to evacuate for their own reasons because of the war.”
The danger they faced doesn’t appear in their illustrations. They found success through the Little Golden Book series with some artists even moving on to work for Disney Gustaf Tenggren was among the Golden Book-turned-Disney set. He isn’t a household name, but his depiction of the Seven Dwarves in Disney’s 1937 animated classic “Snow White” will live forever in film history and moviegoers’ hearts.
Meanwhile, his paintings of “The Poky Little Puppy” are still touching children’s hearts.
Poky Puppy is here
The exhibition features an illustration from “The Poky Little Puppy” showing the pup with his friends thinking about digging an escape tunnel beneath a picket fence. They hesitate beneath a sign announcing, “No desserts ever unless puppies never dig holes under this fence again!”
This prompts the question: Can puppies read? And if they can, would the threat of withholding desserts really discourage them from digging that hole?
In their world, a Little Golden Book world, the color is bold, every story is happy and all adults become kids again.
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BY CATHERINE S COMEAUX
Contributing writer
Editor’s note: The writer and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks, traveling by minivan from Louisiana to Alaska, to Nova Scotia, and all along the Mississippi River in between. This year, she turns her attention to Louisiana state parks to discover the natural beauty of the South less than a day’s drive from home.
Bayou Segnette State Park, situated on 600 acres of mingled marsh and swamplands, feels like a remote getaway though it’s only a short 30-minute drive south from New Orleans. As a destination in itself or a break from the goings-on in the Crescent City, the cypress trees and waterways of Bayou Segnette offer a welcome respite with opportunities for picnicking, boating, fishing and nature gazing. The waterways within the state park offer an experience of the landscape typical of the Mississippi River delta: grassy marshlands and cypress tupelo swamps interconnected by bayous and inlets, and teeming with wildlife. The state park sits at the southern edge of Louisiana’s solid ground below which the terrain turns into a succession of lakes, bays and marshlands before it reaches the Gulf.
In his 2024 book, “The Great River,” Boyce Upholt tells the complex story of the Mississippi River and how man’s attempt to engineer its waters has had unintended consequences like the subsidence and erosion seen in this region where the coastline is constantly moving northward. Upholt
invites readers to “see the beauty that persists despite our mistakes.”
Bayou Segnette State Park is a good place to do so.
Activities and amenities
Owing to its unique location between one of the largest rivers in North America and the Gulf, the waters of the state park of-
fer amazing fishing opportunities for both saltwater and freshwater catch like bass, redfish, catfish, trout and perch. A fish-cleaning station bedecks the back porch of each of the 16 floating cabins along Marcello Canal (an offshoot of Bayou Segnette).
Overnight cabin guests can catch their supper, clean it and cook it without
ever having to leave their cabin. The screened front porch makes a lovely place for a meal overlooking the water A boat landing with five launch points and a large parking area gives motor boaters easy access to explore the waterways, whether to find where the fish are biting or simply enjoy the beauty of nature. Warmer temperatures bring out the water skiers (not recommended for all — only the brave who
understand the tenuous but typically peaceful relationship between humans and alligators). Paddlers use the boat launch as well and enjoy exploring the side channels of the bayous.
In addition to the floating cabins, overnight tent and RV campsites are available. The campgrounds are amenable to tent camping but set up for the RV camper; each site has a picnic table, fire ring, water and electrical hook-ups but no maintained tent pads.
The ground is soft in this region and rocks aren’t an issue, but tent campers might want to check for cypress knees before laying down their ground cover
Campers have access to two shower houses where they will also find laundry facilities, a dishwashing sink and a small playground. All overnight guests at the state park have access to the swimming pool.
The “group camp” area, misleadingly designated by a tent symbol on the park map, is actually a large dormitory built in the style of a dogtrot with a wide, central open-air breezeway and ample porch space. The building has a commercial kitchen, is wheelchair-accessible and accommodates up to 80 overnight guests.
Day visitors can take a short hike, go for a bike ride around the park, or get out on the water for a few hours. Located on the Mississippi Flyway, one of the most active migratory corridors in North America, the park is an excellent place for birding. The myriad cypress trees throughout the park are majestic yearround, creating a vivid display for nature gazers twice a year — in the fall when their needle-like leaves turn
rust orange and again in the early spring when they push forth bright green, feathery new growth.
Check your schedule — plan for a weekend, a day or simply a picnic at Bayou Segnette State Park where you can enjoy the beauty of Louisiana in the wild space between the bayous and the Gulf.
Know before you go
n Closest grocery stores are in Westwego.
n Wheelchair-accessible and/or pet-friendly cabins are available.
n Due to its proximity to New Orleans, overnight accommodations are often booked up in advance for events like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.
n Four EV charging stations are located near picnic area.
n Persons 16 or older must have a saltwater fishing license in addition to a basic fishing
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