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John Newberry opens a childrens bookstore where he published and sold books for children. Before this, childrens books were given plain (Chapbooks, battledores and hornbooks). These were as boring as can be with no pictures, as they only contained the alphabet or Bible verses. This brought on joy, sparking creativity and imagination, a new world here to stay! -
Child Labor Laws were passed, allowing children to go to school and learn to read and write. This increased the amount of books published for children. New technologies also surfaced allowing cost of publications to decrease, starting public libraries worldwide! -
Macmillan launches a dept. devoted entirely to childrens books. -
This Award was established by the American Library Association which later established the Randolf Caldecott Award in 1938. -
Helen Dean Fish and May Masse were the first children's books editors, Massee later moved to open a childrens book department at Viking and that led to more publishers to do the same. -
From the 1920s through the 1960s childrens and young adult books became an important part of libraries, schools, homes and publishing houses with rooms dedicated soley for them. -
Harriet Rohmer established Childrens Book Press, dedicated to the publication of bilingual picturebooks that that reflected a diversity of cultural experiences after realizing how low diversity publications were. In 1988 other small press followed suit. -
While there were more efforts to publish books that represented all people from different ethnicities, there were even less books published that were inclusive with characters who were gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. -
With the rise in popularity of teen books, there has been a shift in books that are culturally diverse and inclusive of all people, while there is still hestiancy in the choices of books published, there are more books available now that many can relate to.