In this chapter you will: Early Beginnings - Identify the purpose of storytelling throughout history.
- Determine the purpose and form of early lesson books and note some examples.
- Determine the contribution William Caxton made to children's books.
- Be able to differentiate among hornbooks, ABCs, and primers.
- Learn why Orbis Pictus is a landmark among children's books.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Determine the effect Puritanism had on children's books
- Learn what chapbooks were and why they were popular.
- Read about theories regarding the origin of the Mother Goose rhymes.
- Find the major French connection in early fairy tales.
- Find out why John Newbery's publication of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is generally accepted as the beginning of children's literature.
- Determine the purpose of the didactic writers.
- Characterize the poetry of the eighteenth century.
Nineteenth Century - Learn about the contributions of Noah Webster and William H. McGuffey to children's literature.
- Note some of the leading collectors of folktales in the nineteenth century.
- Read about the family stories of the nineteenth century.
- Define the term Robinsonades.
- Identify the trend-setting animal stories.
- Identify some of the fantasies and humorous books of the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Find out how the nature of poetry changed in the nineteenth century.
- Describe the literary features that magazines offered in the last half of the nineteenth century.
- Identify the best-known illustrators of the nineteenth century and their contributions.
Twentieth Century - Identify peripheral events that occurred in the twentieth century that were indicative of the fact that children's literature was established as a field.
- Learn about developments in informational books.
- Read how biographies changed in the twentieth century.
- Identify the key folklorists of children's collections in the twentieth century.
- Learn how fantasy changed in the latter quarter of the twentieth century.
- Learn about developments in children's poetry in the 20th century.
- Identify changes in books of realism in the twentieth century.
- Read about increased internationalism in children's literature.
Recent Trends - Identify reasons why there is a steady increase in the number of books published yearly.
- Read about several shifts in publishing emphases.
- Learn about increased use of trade books in schools.
- Read about increased censorship of children's books.
- Note the changes in multicultural and international publishing.
- Speculate about the effect of a multiliterate society on children.
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