Society and Book Culture: Exhibition project "Constructing the Future: Children's book of 1920-30s" is presented in Moscow

October 27, 2016 took place the grand opening of the exhibition project "Constructing the Future: Children's book of 1920-30s", which represents three federal libraries: the Russian State Library, the Russian State Children's Library and the Library of Foreign Literature. For the first time three federal libraries are combined to show the "golden age" in the history of children's literature from several points of view. 

1920-30s - a period of rapid development of the domestic children's books and unprecedented experimentation with form and content. Art findings, appeared in children's literature at the time, forever changed the children's book - domestic and global. Until now, the images of these books are a common cultural foundation, which brings together people divided by social barriers, political opinion, national boundaries.

Each of the libraries tells its own exhibition story.

The exhibition at the Library of Foreign Literature, tells how discoveries of Soviet writers and illustrators 1920-30 were met in the West and what impact they have had on the world children's literature.

In the exposition of the Russian State Children's Library is described the world of children's books of 1920-30s - about the most important artistic images and stories of the brightest literary heroes and about the features of life at that time, reflected in literature.

The exhibition in the Russian State Library tells about the creators of children's literature - writers and illustrators, their creative methods and circumstances of life, implicitly reflected in the works.

With the help of books and drafts, photographs and diaries, memoirs of contemporaries and critics reviews the exhibition tells about the life and works of the main authors of the new children's literature of the time.