Among all the work of Raskin's I saw in the collection, this is the book that has the most complete material. I had never seen this book before my visit to the Kerlan Collection.
McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much, published in 1973. The Kerlan Collection doesn't have anything from The Westing Game (that material is held at the University of Wisconsin), but they have just about everything else.
Cover materials for The Tattooed Potato. Artwork from The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). Material from her picture book Freak Show. Book covers and miscellaneous art (including a series of black-and-white illustrations Raskin did for the New York Times ). Over the next week, I'll post five times with photos of what I saw, covering these topics: Lots of standing over tables, too, stooping slightly, so it's a bit hard on the back.īut so worth it. Each piece is wrapped in acid-free paper, so there's a lot of material moving around. You have to take out one item at a time and keep them all in order. You tell them in advance which boxes you want to see ( selecting from this list) and a pile of large, gray, flat boxes will be waiting for you on a cart. So I finally got off the dime and made an appointment to see some of the collection.Īnyone can use the Kerlan's archives, but you need to make an appointment and go during business hours. She said I should do it as soon as possible because, well, you just never know what will happen in life. Then I happened to meet the past director of the collection at a party and told her about my interest. 
But somehow I never quite got there to see them. I know, I know, I live not too far from the campus, and I've been aware of these holdings for years. I've written many times about my love of the writer/designer/illustrator Ellen Raskin (see the list at the end of this post), but recently I got serious about my near-obsession: I went to see the collection of her original work held at the Kerlan Collection of children's literature at the University of Minnesota.
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