85:. The Susan Price Collection, which now contains over 20,000 books, is currently housed in her own home under her curatorship but is open for researchers and visitors by appointment. It focuses on her selection of the best children’s books published in the English language from 1930 to today, including the work of over 70 New Zealand authors, and it is particularly strong in areas of historical fiction, non-fiction history books and books by publishers such as
51:, and she grew up in a family in which books were important. She recalls spending all her pocket money on new books, and cataloguing her book collection (some of them books gifted to her by her grandmother) as a teenager. Her collection at that stage included 350 children's book titles, and it continued to grow.
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to help research children's literature. Over several decades, she has also gifted many books to more than 70 children of family and friends around New
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Kippenberger Library at the
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