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1928
Millions of Cats

Artist Wanda Gág writes and illustrates Millions of Cats, which becomes a classic book for children. She goes on to publish nine more children's books and Growing Pains, diaries of her teen-age years in New Ulm.

Photo of Wanda Gag
Wanda Gag. 		Minnesota map highlighting Brown County.
Watercolor set, circa 1880-1882
Spring Painting
Wanda's Book 		Greeting card by Wanda Gag
"Dear Hertha..."
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Adventure Online
  		• Find a brief biography and a selected list of Wanda Gag’s works on the Minnesota Author Biography Project web site.

    Investigate Further
  		• Read Rhoda R. Gilman's The Story of Minnesota's Past.
  		• Read Wanda Gag's childhood diaries and see some of her art in Growing Pains.
  		• Read Julie L'Enfant's, The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America
  		• Read Megan O'Hara's, The Girlhood Diary of Wanda Gag,1908-1909: Portrait of a Young Artist
  		• Read Karen Nelson Hoyle's, Wanda Gag
  		• Use the Visual Resource Database to search and view some of the Society's 250,000 images.
  		• Search PALS, the MHS online card catalog, to find books, archives, manuscripts, maps, and some of the Society's vast object collections.

    1930

    Sinclair Lewis Wins Nobel

    1927

    Giants in the Earth

    1874

    On the Banks of Plum Creek

    1855

    The Song of Hiawatha

    1683

    Minnesota in Print

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