The CCBC would receive the manuscript materials for The Westing Game, edited by Ann Durell and published in 1978 by E. Kruse decided to accept the offer on behalf of the CCBC. She preferred to think of her papers as being seen by interested art students at UW-Madison and others as opposed to being preserved but unseen by all but a few scholars. Raskin made it clear that she wanted the manuscript materials to be used, commenting that it wouldn’t matter if they fell apart because of use. CCBC Director Ginny Moore Kruse reminded her once again that the CCBC is not equipped for preservation. In 1978 Raskin offered a manuscript to the CCBC for the third time. Her generous offers had been turned down, because manuscripts are not within the scope of CCBC collections. Raskin knew that the very people she hoped her manuscript materials might inspire are in and out of the CCBC all the time: art students, student writers, teachers of writing and others interested in the creative process.Īs of 1978 Raskin had made two earlier offers of selected archival materials to the CCBC. She wanted to make it possible for future UW-Madison students to see something of the creative process of writing a manuscript, the editorial process and matters concerning page and jacket design, decisions concerning the selection of the typeface, and many other details about creating a children’s book. Ellen Raskin often remarked during her career that she wished she had known “where children’s books come from” while she was a young UW-Madison art student.

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