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children had been given chapbooks, battledores, and hornbooks (to instruct children)
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John Newbery opened a bookstore in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Where it published and sold books for children.
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He is considered the author of the first American book written specifically for children A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) were written purely to give pleasure to children.
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American children made no distinction among British and American books or other countries they read Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio from Italy, Johanna Spyri's Heidi from Switzerland, and Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nills from Sweden.
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Freed children to go to school. More kids learned to read and write.
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Macmillan launched a department devoted entirely to children's books.
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Modern picture books began to develop during this time
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John Newbery Award was established by the American Library Association
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Helen Dean Fish and May Massee became the first children's book editors.
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The Horn Book Magazine was published by the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston
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Children's books and young adults' books became an increasingly important part of libraries, schools, homes, and publishing houses
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established Children's Book Press, devoted to the publication of bilingual picture books, reflected diversity
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were established to address the lack of diversity in the field
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Bishop found that only 3-4% of the children's book published in 1990, 1991, and 1992 related to people of color
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Since 1999 less than 3% of books published each year were by or about people of color
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Less than 1% of books published in the U.S were books that had been translated
