| 书目名称 | Once Upon a Time | | 副标题 | Illustrations from F | | 编辑 | Amy Weinstein | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | the 1905 obituary of John McLoughlin, Jr. , in Publisher’s Weekly declared,“Every child in the land knows the McLoughlin books. . . . In fact,the history in the last decade of colored toy books for youngsters is the history of Mr. McLoughlin and his firm. ” McLoughlin Brothers held an important role in the children’s book publishing world. In fact,as my husband, the late Arthur Liman, and I discovered in our research, the firm was instrumental in creating it. The publisher’s preeminence in the field was the result of its entrepreneurial spirit,creativity,competiti- ness,foresight,and perseverance How was it,then,that Arthur—an intense attorney with character- tics similar to that of McLoughlin Brothers—ended up sitting behind a collectors’ convention booth selling children’s books and games,all the while reading a brief? Or charging at lightning speed,flashlight in hand, amidst rain and mud in the early morning hours,through a remote co- try antiques fair? Or mysteriouslyvanishing froma critical corporate c- ference to negotiate,instead,with a slightly disheveled dealer waiting in his office,or to aggressively bid by phone at a London auction? And what were all those mail ordercata | | 出版日期 | Book 2005Latest edition | | 关键词 | Children‘s literature; Kinderbuchillustration; antiques; creativity; flash; history; history of literature | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-660-2 | | copyright | Princeton Architectural Press 2005 |
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,To Amuse and Instruct, |
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Who would not give libraries for that dancing buoyancy of attention, and intensity of delight with which the first story-book of childhood is read?” This rhetorical question was posed by a writer for . charged with reviewing the array of books published for “juveniles” in time for Christmas giving in 1852. He went on to describe a bounty of books, “ornamented so profusely, and gilded and silvered so prettily—to say nothing of the variegated contents, stories, facts, and fables.” Such a wealth of children’s books was a new cultural phenomenon, and from mid-century on, American children were the beneficiaries of a blossoming trade in illustrated books created expressly for their enjoyment. Prior to this time, children’s reading had generally been limited to the Bible, schoolbooks, and, for those from wealthier families, books written for adults.
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,From Apple to Zouave, |
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“A: In Adam’s fall we sinned all” was the opening line of many editions of ., the book used by young children in the English colonies of North America to learn their letters. Having its origins in medieval devotional books, the primer also contained prayers. Next to the Bible, it was the book most frequently read by American children well into the nineteenth century.
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,Through the Air on a Very Fine Gander, |
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Bringing joy to the ear and delight to the soul, the rhymes of Mother Goose have been amusing children of all ages for countless generations. Heard first in infancy, they remain forever in memory. The origins of some lie in antiquity; the origins of others, in the first stanzas of folk ballads. Lighthearted and silly on the surface, the rhymes nonetheless have been the subject of much study, from scholars who delve into their roots in global storytelling and lullaby traditions to those who seek the identity of the “real” Mother Goose, convinced that she can be located in history. In jest and with all due seriousness of purpose, many have sought to find a female figure with a name approximating “goose,” pointing to such historically disparate figures as the medieval Bertrada, Queen Goosefoot, the mother of Charlemagne, and Elisabeth Vergoose, whose son-in-law Thomas Fleet, a colonial-era Boston printer, was long erroneously credited as the first to publish Mother Goose. Finding proof of such speculations about the authorship of these delightful rhymes had the same probability of success as all the king’s horses and all the king’s men putting Humpty Dumpty together again, and so the
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,Once Upon a Time, |
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In many different languages, storytellers around the world have uttered the words “once upon a time,” transporting listeners of all ages to magical lands, home to giants, witches, talking animals, and enchanted objects. The fairytales read by nineteenth-century American children are those we know today and are indebted to efforts to amuse the French aristocracy. In 1697, Charles Perrault (1628–1703) published ., a collection of eight captivating tales: ., and ., along with one other that has not survived the test of time. Gaining immediate popularity among children and adults, the stories were translated into English in 1729 and soon were known in America.
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,Fact and Fiction, |
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Once the notion of writing and publishing books for children became firmly established in the nineteenth century, the field knew no bounds. Science, biography, history, and literature all proved fertile ground, as children’s books reflected mainstream adult interests as well as childish pursuits. When addressing adult purchasers of books, publishers stressed their product’s practical and instructional value, but they also made sure to include plenty of illustrations to enhance the visual appeal of their volumes to the children who would ultimately read them. They also included movable parts and eye-catching devices, such as shaped covers and fold-outs, to animate their pages.
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,’Twas the Night Before, |
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Much of the imagery that has become inextricably associated with the American family Christmas—stockings hung by the fire, a jolly Santa Claus, and a reindeer-pulled sleigh filled with presents—may be traced to .. This lyrical Christmas Eve call on good boys and girls was first published in the . on December 23, 1823, one year after Clement Clarke Moore had read his joyful poem aloud to family and friends in New York City. The poem quickly became part of the popular imagination and helped to establish Christmas as a festive, child-centered family celebration.
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,Virtue and Vice, |
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The moniker “Goody Two Shoes” today carries with it a ring of contempt for the overly pious, but when the term originated in the eighteenth century as the name of a heroine in a John Newbery story it was a label of praise. The subtitle of Newbery’s . reveals both the plot and moral of his story:.Little Margery’s good spirits and virtuous conduct in coming to terms with sudden poverty, learning to read, and teaching other impoverished children to love learning set the tone for many nineteenth-century American children’s stories.
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