The Children's Literature Collection at W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queen's University Library, is an amalgam of a number of donations and purchases over the years, beginning with the 1944 gift of about 50 volumes from Harry Hereford. With the addition of donations by Elizabeth Gray, John E. Gow and Wilfred Knight in 1966, the collection had grown to approximately 600 volumes. It now numbers more than 2000 volumes representing the development of the genre (mostly in English).