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This article describes why child-created marginalia can serve as an important source within rare books in special collections librarie. Given the general lack of child-created cultural heritage within repositories at large, child-created cultural heritage rare books collections that contain children’s marginalia hold a distinctly valuable source for scholars interested in the ideas and lives of children. The authors bring awareness to the complexity of marginalia’s status overall, describe the common varieties of child-created marginalia, and provide insight into how to make these sources less elusive to researchers
