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1744
John Newbery opened a bookstore in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London -
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1851/1893
Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered America’s author for children books. -
1865
Lewis Carroll’s, reprinted in English Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland -
1907
The first child labor law was established and freed children to go to school. Where they learned to read and write. -
1919
The US publishing house Macmillan launched a department devoted entirely to chil- dren’s books. -
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1920/1960
Modern picture books began to develop during the 1920 through 1960s -
1922
The John Newbery Award was established by the American Library Association. -
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1922/1923
Two women, Helen Dean Fish and May Massee, became the first children’s books editors. -
1960
In the 1960s and 1970s books presented girls and women in what at the time were “nontraditional” roles, then changed at the end of the twentieth century. -
1975
In 1975 there a lack of picture books being distributed due to lack of diversity. -
1988
In 1988 they addressed the lack of diversity in the field. -
1994
In 1994, Bishop found that only 3 to 4 percent of the children’s books published in 1990, 1991, and 1992 related to people of color. -
2001
An increase in nonfiction for children and adolescents. -
2002
In 2002, books are sold internationally and less than 1 percent of books published in the United States were books that had been translated.