A history of children's books in 100 books /
While the modern children's book, intended specifically for the enjoyment of children, did not emerge until 18th-century Europe, its roots span centuries and continents. Children's literature began with fables, myths and folk tales from the oral tradition. A History of the Children's...
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Richmond Hill, Ontario :
Firefly Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- First steps : oral traditions and pre-literacy
- Once upon a time, in a land far away
- Abecedarias and battledores
- The 'child's first tutor' : the education of the young
- Small books for small people : the growth of publishing for the young
- Tales of tails : animal stories for children
- Innocence, experience and old-fashioned nonsense
- Fairies and frighteners : tempters, tearaways and cautionary tales
- Heroes in action : time-travel, detection and derring-do
- The war years and beyond
- Growing up fast : comics, TV and new media
- Records of a lost age : children's books as historical artefacts.