Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

"PETER AND THE WOLF"

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

PAPER, INK

No. Pieces

1

Length

20.2

Width

17

Description

BOOK WITH YELLOW AND BROWN PATTERNED SPINE; FRONT COVER DEPICTS AN IMAGE OF A BLONDE BOY IN RED, BLACK, PINK, AND YELLOW OUTFIT CARRYING A TOY GUN WALKING THROUGH BLUE AND WHITE SNOW WITH A BIRD, DUCK, AND CAT. FRONT COVER HAS PINK, WHITE, AND BLACK TEXT AT TOP, “WALT DISNEY’S PETER AND THE WOLF, FROM THE WALT DISNEY PRODUCTION ‘MAKE MINE MUSIC’”, AND BLACK TEXT AT BOTTOM, “A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK”. BACK COVER HAS FOUR COLOURED SQUARES, GOING CLOCKWISE RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, WITH IMAGES OF CHARACTERS RUNNING ALONG EDGES; BACK COVER HAS A YELLOW SQUARE IN THE CENTER WITH RED AND BLACK TEXT, “THE LITTLE GOLDEN LIBRARY…[LIST OF BOOK TITLES]…SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NEW YORK, WALT DISNEY BOOKS – ALL © WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, BANK STREET BOOKS, ‘BUGS BUNNY’ © WARNER BROS. CARTOONS”. BOOK PAGES HAVE PINK EDGES. INSIDE OF FRONT COVER HAS ORANGE BACKGROUND WITH BLACK LEAVES PATTERN, CHARACTER IMAGES, AND RED TEXT “LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS”; INSIDE FRONT COVER HAS IMAGE OF WHITE OPEN BOOK IN CENTER WITH BLACK TEXT “THIS LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK BELONGS TO” AND PENCIL TEXT “BARBARA; INSIDE OF FRONT COVER HAS RED AND WHITE LABEL AT TOP EDGE WITH BLUE HANDWRITTEN TEXT “MRS. B. JENSEN”. COVER PAGE INSIDE HAS PENCIL TEXT IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER “.25”. PAGES INSIDE ARE YELLOWED; COVER IS WORN AND CREASED ON FRONT; SPINE IS WORN AND FRAYING; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Subjects

TOY

DOCUMENTARY ARTIFACT

Historical Association

LEISURE

EDUCATION

History

ON FEBRUARY 5, 2019, COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED BARB CAVERS REGARDING HER DONATION OF ITEMS FROM HER HOME AND TEACHING CAREER. ON THE “PETER AND THE WOLF” BOOK, CAVERS RECALLED, “WHEN I WAS FIRST MARRIED WE LIVED IN A FAIRLY SMALL APARTMENT [IN 1968]…I HAD THE RECORDS BECAUSE I KNOW I USED THEM IN MY FIRST FEW YEARS OF TEACHING…[I] PROBABLY HAD THE BOOKS AS WELL, BECAUSE I PROBABLY TOOK THEM. I TOOK ALL OF MY OWN PERSONAL BOOKS AND RECORDS INTO THE CLASSROOM AND USED THEM. THE MUSIC BOX, I NEVER WOULD HAVE TAKEN TO SCHOOL…I MAY HAVE GOT THEM ALL WHEN I GOT MARRIED, AND MY MOTHER MIGHT HAVE SAID, ‘HERE.’” “YOU CAN SEE, EVEN IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK, IT SAYS, ‘THIS LITTLE FOLDING BOOK BELONGS TO BARBARA’, AND I PRINTED IT ONCE, AND I’VE WRITTEN IT ONCE, AND THEN I’VE GOT ‘MRS. B. JENSEN’, ON THE INSIDE…MY MOTHER REALLY LOVED MUSIC, AND SHE WAS ALWAYS ENCOURAGING US TO BE INVOLVED IN MUSIC, TO LISTEN TO GOOD MUSIC, AND, OF COURSE, THIS ‘PETER AND THE WOLF’ IS BASED ON THE [MUSIC]—PROKOFIEV WROTE THAT ONE—AND LATER, AFTER I HAD THIS BOOK, WHICH SOLD FOR $0.25—WE SAW THE [WALT DISNEY] FILM IN CLASS, AND THEN I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY COOL, BECAUSE I HAD THE BOOK AND NOW I COULD SEE THE MOVIE. BUT IT’S SUCH A NEAT STORY, ANYWAY—THE PICTURES ARE FUN, AND THE ADVENTURE…THE STORY AND THE MUSIC OF ‘PETER AND THE WOLF’ ARE PRETTY SPECIAL. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MY MOTHER, I’M SURE, BUYING THAT.” CAVERS ELABORATED ON HER CHILDHOOD LOVE FOR READING, NOTING, “I DON’T REMEMBER BEING READ TO AT BEDTIME. I’M SURE WE WERE. I WAS AN EARLY READER, AND A VORACIOUS READER. I READ EVERYTHING I COULD GET MY HANDS ON. THE ONLY TIME I REALLY REMEMBER MY MOTHER READING WAS WHEN WE TRAVELED ONE YEAR DOWN TO COEUR D’ALENE AND SPOKANE, AND SHE WAS READING ‘THE SECRET GARDEN’ TO US IN THE CAR, AND THERE WAS CONSTRUCTION ON THE ROAD SO WE OFTEN WERE STOPPED FOR A WHILE, SO THE BOOK WOULD COME OUT. I REMEMBER JUST BEING THRILLED, BECAUSE MY FATHER WOULD ALWAYS JUST KIND OF ROLL HIS EYES, AND LIKE ‘HERE WE GO; MARY IN THE GARDEN.’ THEN WE GOT HOME, AND WE’D BEEN HOME FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND HE SAID TO ME, ‘SO, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT LITTLE GIRL?’ AND, I SAID, ‘AHH HA, VICTORY!’ HE WAS INTO THE STORY. SO, SHE DID READ TO US. AS OLDER CHILDREN THAT WAS KIND OF SPECIAL, BUT I DON’T RECALL BEING READ TO AS A YOUNGER CHILD, THOUGH I’M SURE IT HAPPENED ALL THE TIME. WE HAD A COLLECTION OF BOOKS—THE SERIES CALLED ‘JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND’, AND I THINK THERE WERE 12 VOLUMES, AND I DON’T KNOW IF I STILL HAVE IT OR IF I GAVE IT AWAY, BUT THE FIRST VOLUME HAD THE NURSERY RHYTHMS AND THE FAIRY TALES…THE PAGES ARE FALLING OUT, SO I WOULD HAVE READ THOSE TO MYSELF AFTERWARDS…[READING] WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT TO MY MOTHER.” “I WOULD HAVE READ MY BOOKS TO [MY CHILDREN]. I DID READ QUITE A BIT TO THEM, AS I RECALL, ANYWAY. I’D HAVE TO SEE IF THEY SHARE THAT SAME RECOLLECTION.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES AND THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE P20190005001-GA.

Catalogue Number

P20190005017

Acquisition Date

2019-02

Collection

Museum

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