Center for the Book

The Center for the Book’s vision is that every Virginian will have access to books and reading and to the power that books and reading provide to shape and inform personal and civic life.

As an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, the VFH Center for the Book works within a network of 50 state-center affiliates to promote books, reading, literacy, and the literary life of Virginia.

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Goodnight Moon

Remember Goodnight Moon? With Good Reason takes a look at the life of its author, Margaret Wise Brown, and other chapters in the history of children's literature.
A peek inside the amazing miniature book Amanda Nelsen created as a response to the deluge of credit card offers arriving in her home. She has included bits of the actual offers as inclusions in her handmade abaca paper.

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Inspired by junk mail and credit card solicitations, Amanda Nelsen created a unique miniature book. VABC's Josef Beery tells this book's story.