Forgotten Books of the American Nursery: A History of the Development of the American Story-book |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 37
Page 4
... literature for children . To the student desiring an intimate acquaintance with any civilized people , its lighter literature is always a great aid to personal research ; the more trivial , the more detailed , the greater the worth to ...
... literature for children . To the student desiring an intimate acquaintance with any civilized people , its lighter literature is always a great aid to personal research ; the more trivial , the more detailed , the greater the worth to ...
Page 33
... literature is , there- fore , to be regarded as a comparatively modern invention of about seventeen hundred and forty - five . From that date can be traced the slow growth of a literature written with an avowed intention of furnishing ...
... literature is , there- fore , to be regarded as a comparatively modern invention of about seventeen hundred and forty - five . From that date can be traced the slow growth of a literature written with an avowed intention of furnishing ...
Page 201
... literature was a force bearing upon the various writers , and whose growth was coincident with the development of the children's periodical literature . The American Sunday School Union , an outgrowth of the several religious ...
... literature was a force bearing upon the various writers , and whose growth was coincident with the development of the children's periodical literature . The American Sunday School Union , an outgrowth of the several religious ...
Contents
The PlayBook in England | 33 |
Newberys Books in America | 59 |
Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery | 89 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
advertised Aesop's Fables alphabet American children amusement appeared Barbauld's Bible books for children booksellers Boston catechism chap-books character Charles chil child children's books children's literature Clarissa colonies contained cuts doll dren duodecimos edition eighteen hundred eighteenth century Eliza Eliza Leslie England Primer English engraved Fables Francis Newbery frontispiece Gift gilt girl Goody Two-Shoes History illustrations instruction interest Isaiah Thomas issued Jacob Abbott Jacob Johnson John Newbery juvenile literature ladies later Lessons letters literary little boy Little Pretty Pocket-Book London mind Miss Edgeworth moral Mother Goose naughty Newbery Newbery's nursery nursery favorite paper parents Philadelphia Play-thing popular pretty printed printer published Puritan reader religious reprinted rhymes Samuel seventeen hundred sold stories story-book Sunday-school tale Thomas Fleet tion title-page Tom Thumb Tommy toy-books Verse volumes William Darton wood Worcester writing written wrote York young