Hector the Collector
By Emily Beeny and Stephanie Graegin
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“A sweet and child-sensitive addition to any picture-book collection.” —Kirkus Reviews
When Hector comes across an acorn, he discovers a love for collecting them in all shapes and sizes.
They were all different.
They were all the same.
They were all beautiful.
One day his teacher finds his desk filled with acorns, and his classmates make fun of poor Hector. But they soon learn that all collections are special—whether coins, stuffed animals, songs, or seashells—and that some collections are also meant for sharing, like the paintings in an art museum or the books at a public library.
Hector the Collector is a charming and evocative story that celebrates the joy of collecting and how collections can grow into the most breathtaking museums in the world.
Emily Beeny
Emily Beeny is a curator and art historian specialized in French paintings. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has worked at museums in New York, Paris, Boston, and Southern California. Her experience as a curator inspired her picture book Hector the Collector. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their cat and dog.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Hector stumbles upon an acorn on his walk to school, he is so struck by it that he puts it in his pocket. Soon he is collecting acorns, admiring the ways in which they differ - color, texture, size - and appreciating the way in which they are the same. Then his teacher opens his desk at school, and his collection of acorns is revealed, to the ridicule of all. Has Hector lost all credit with his classmates, or will they turn out to have some collecting habits of their own...?Although I've honestly never thought about collecting as a category of behavior, there's no doubt that I'm a bit of a collector myself - at least when it comes to books! - so I ended up finding Hector the Collector a charming tale. Author Emily Beeny is an art historian and museum curator, and it is clear that this informs her narrative here, in her debut children's book. Her afterword, in which she talks about the different collections, from the personal to the public, will get young children thinking, not just about how we collect things, but about how we categorize them. The artwork by Stephanie Graegin is colorful and appealing. Recommended to all the young collectors out there, whether it is stamps or buttons (or anything else) that interests them.