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  Newbery published and sold books that taught children proper behavior without all of the fire and brimstone threats if they did not behave.
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  Child labor laws allowed to children to go to school where they could learn to read and write.
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  Macmillan is a US publishing house that decided to launch a department just for children's literature.
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  The American Library Association established the John Newbery Award
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  Harriet Rohmer creates CHildren's Book Press devoted to publishing bilingual picturebooks reflecting diversity.
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