Come Closer: The Darker Side of Children's Books. An Exhibition

The exhibition 'Come Closer: The Darker Side of Children’s Books' offers a glimpse of some of the sophisticated and complex ways in which writers and illustrators of children’s texts have engaged with controversial subjects. The exhibition features 40 children's books from the 17th century to the modern day which have dealt with controversial issues such as death, fear, sexuality, depression, and violence. This new exhibition at Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, marks the end of a two year project by the National Collection of Children’s Books (NCCB) project which has seen the development of a new online catalogue (nccb.tcd.ie) detailing over 250,000 children’s books in over 90 languages from five libraries in Dublin, including the Dublin City Library & Archive.