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John Newbery opened a bookstore in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered America’s author for children books.
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Lewis Carroll’s, reprinted in English Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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The first child labor law was established and freed children to go to school. Where they learned to read and write.
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The US publishing house Macmillan launched a department devoted entirely to chil- dren’s books.
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Modern picture books began to develop during the 1920 through 1960s
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The John Newbery Award was established by the American Library Association.
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Two women, Helen Dean Fish and May Massee, became the first children’s books editors.
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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.
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In 1975 there a lack of picture books being distributed due to lack of diversity.
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In 1988 they addressed the lack of diversity in the field.
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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.
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An increase in nonfiction for children and adolescents.
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In 2002, books are sold internationally and less than 1 percent of books published in the United States were books that had been translated.