Jennifer Jacobson Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of manuscript materials related to publications by Jennifer Jacobson, including typescripts, corrected typescripts, corrected page proofs, correspondence and notes dated between 1990 and 2011.
Dates
- Creation: 1990-2011, undated
Creator
- Jacobson, Jennifer, 1958- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). 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. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Jennifer Jacobson grew up in Peterborough, New Hampshire and graduated from Lesley College, where she first took a course in children's literature. She received her master's in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching preschool through sixth grade as well as serving as Curriculum Coordinator, Head of Studies or Language Arts Specialist in schools around New England. Her first published book, a children's picture book titled A Net of Stars, was published in 1998. She has published fourteen children's books and currently resides in Maine where she continues to write and teach seminars on writing.
Extent
1.2 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of manuscript materials for nine publications by Jennifer Jacobson, published between 1999 and 2011.
Arrangement
Collection guide arranged alphabetically by title.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jennifer Jacobson.
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Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction
- Adventure stories
- Animals -- Infancy -- Juvenile fiction
- Animals -- Juvenile fiction
- Authors, American -- 21st century
- Bicycles and bicycling -- Juvenile fiction
- Bossiness -- Juvenile fiction
- Camps -- Juvenile fiction
- Cancer -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, American
- Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
- Foxes -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Halloween -- Juvenile fiction
- Heroes -- Juvenile fiction
- Honesty -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Marbles (Game objects) -- Juvenile fiction
- Mother and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
- Parades -- Juvenile fiction
- Personality disorders -- Juvenile fiction
- Pumpkin -- Juvenile fiction
- Reading -- Juvenile fiction
- Realistic fiction
- Resorts -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-realization -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Juvenile fiction
- Title
- Jennifer Jacobson papers, 1990-2011, undated
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Kate Dietrick
- Date
- May 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- May 2014: Collection reprocessed by Carly Lawrence; EAD updated by Kate Dietrick
- June 2020: Description updated by Caitlin Marineau.
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Children's Literature Research Collections Collecting Area
