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Chapbooks, and early children's books where the only thing that children had to read, until John Newbery opened the first children bookstore.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first real American Children's book author and he published "A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls" but the majority of literature still came from England.
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Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland and this was the first book that wasn't written to teach kids a lesson but to entertain them. It was translated to english language and sent all over the world.
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Child Labor Laws where put in place and more children had the opportunity to go to school and that lead to a boom in children's literature. Which lead to publishing companies being set up just for children's books.
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Macmillian was an American publishing house and they where the first ones to launch a department devoted only to children's books. Soon after that in 1922 and 1938 awards where set up for children's book authors.
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Modern picture books started to be developed
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The first children's book editors where established in 1922 and 1923 they where Helen Dean Fish and May Massee
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The first Magazine for boys and girls was published by the Bookshop for Boys and Girls by Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney it was called, "The Horn Book Magazine"
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from the 1940-1960s children's literature became increasingly popular and it spread throughout library's, schools, homes, and throughout society.
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In 1975 Harriet Rohmer didn't like the lack of diversity in children's books and she established Children's Book Press, that started making bilingual books to highlight the diversity in children and there experiences.
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There was a study that found that less than 3% of children's books where not inclusive of divers cultures. By 1999 less than 3% of books where written by or where about people of color.
