Opened in January 2019, the Kyo Yamawaki Education Room is a group study space and multi-purpose room located on the ground floor of the Brennan Library building, near the Teaching & Learning Center.

The Kyo Yamawaki Education Collection is located on the second floor of Brennan Library. It is a rich collection of fiction and nonfiction books for children from birth through middle school. It serves Lasell's education students, the Holway Child Study Centers, and other patrons interested in the collection.

Brennan Library's main collection includes young adult novels for older audiences, college-level education books, test prep books, and curriculum materials.

If you have any questions regarding the Education Collection or the Education Room, please contact us at library@lasell.edu.

Award winners

Most of the award-winning children's books we own can be found on their respective lists here:

• Newbery Award / Newbery Honor for children's literature
• Caldecott Medal / Caldecott Honor for picture books
• Theodor Seuss Geisel Award / Geisel Honor for beginning readers' books
• Michael J. Printz Award / Printz Honor for young adult literature
• Coretta Scott King Award / Coretta Scott King Honor for African American children's literature
• Stonewall Award for LGBT+ children's and young adult literature

About Kyo Yamawaki

Kyo Yamawaki is a Japanese educator and author of picture books. Her association with Lasell began through Yamawaki Gakuen Junior College, Lasell's sister college in Tokyo. Her husband, Minoru, was chairman of the college, which was founded by his great-grandmother. Later, Kyo Yamawaki herself became the school's president. The Yamawaki family largely funded construction of the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, one of Lasell's main academic buildings.

Ms. Yamawaki began an endowment to fund the Kyo Yamawaki Education Library with the goal of supporting Lasell's education students, and the Education Library opened in 1988. Today, the Education Collection and Winslow Archives both contain copies of several of her books in Japanese.

Above: Kyo Yamawaki reads one of her books to children at Lasell.
Below: Photos from the opening and dedication of the Kyo Yamawaki Education Library. Left, l-r: Bobbi Katz, author; Kyo Yamawaki; Allyson Gray, then library director. Right, l-r: Sue St. Germaine, then head of Lasell's education department; Thomas de Witt, then Lasell president; Kyo Yamawaki; Allyson Gray.

Above: Representatives of Lasell and Yamawaki Gakuen Junior College at the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center. Kyo Yamawaki is second from left; her husband, Minoru Yamawaki, is fourth from left. Thomas de Witt, then president of Lasell, is second from right.