Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online | Human Interest | Scoop.it
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction.

Via Elizabeth E Charles