Children's books and reading

II. THE RISE OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS 19 I. Horn-books; Chap-books; New England Primer 20 II. La Fontaine and Perrault 34 III. Mother Goose 40 IV. John Newbery; Oliver Goldsmith; Isa...

Children are entitled to their full heritage; education is paramount, culture is the saving grace. Your memory of a child is the healthy glow of the unfettered spirit. None of u...

The sixteenth or seventeenth-century boy could own his “Jack and the Giants” and “Guy of Warwick,” his “Hector of Troy” and “Hercules of Greece”; he could even have the latest i...

Wherever you wander in the land of children’s books, ramifications, with the vein of hidden gold, invite investigation,--rich gold for the student and for the critic, but less s...

CHAP-BOOK = f. _chap_ in Chapman + Book. A modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant de...

The tales and playlets written by Berquin are almost immoral in their morality. It is a question whether the interest of children will become absorbed by the constant iteration...

In those days, if authors are to be believed, birds were in the habit of alighting on the hands of good children; they are more timid now, though children are not less good. The...

Mrs. Trimmer’s “Easy Lessons for Children,” her “Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature,” her “Sacred History for Young Persons,” and her works explaining the catechism, w...

Jane, when she was very small, used to edify her neighbours by preaching to them; this impulse found expression later in a series of hymns. Ann also composed religious songs whi...

[32] Day was honest in his intentions, however mistaken his policy may have been. Sabrina finally married a Mr. Bicknell, who willingly allowed her to accept support, meagre as...

Isaiah Thomas may be taken as representative of our Revolutionary period, even as the “New England Primer” may typify the chief literary product of our Colonial life. Peter Parl...

So, are you not here furnished a starting-point in your purchases? Where you are concerned with children, your opportunity is richer by far than you first imagined. They have no...

Conscious of this weakness, the librarian in time will banish from the circulating shelves the text-book, _per se_; and the school child should be prepared to meet the change. I...

A LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR A CHILDREN’S LIBRARY--Compiled for the Iowa Library Commission by Annie Carroll Moore, Supervisor of Children’s Rooms in the New York City Public...

Boy Travellers in South America. Harper. $2.00. [In these volumes there is a large amount of information which would have been more graphic, relieved of the artificial conversat...

FISKE, JOHN--He has written a United States History. (Houghton.) His larger contributions on periods are so excellent in their narrative style as to recommend themselves for you...