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John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), considered "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market. [1]
A woodcut from A Little Pretty Pocketbook (1744), England, showing the first reference to baseball.. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer is the title of a 1744 children's book by British publisher John Newbery.
[4] [5] Toy books were often released as a series, [2] and the most common subjects were popular rhymes and tales. [5] John Harris took over Newbery's publishing firm at the beginning of the 19th century, [6] and within a few years was producing small (4 inches by 5 inches) books, colorfully illustrated, that were meant to amuse children. [7]
Born on 6 July 1743, he was the son of John Newbery, the publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard; alone of his brothers, he survived his father.After schooling at Ramsgate and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, he entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1758 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 1 April 1762.
ValueTales is a series of 43 simple biographical children's books published primarily by the now-defunct Value Communications, Inc. in La Jolla, California.They were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi.
Eggers’ “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book, an honor previously given to Beverly ...
In England, publisher Thomas Boreman released illustrated miniature books entitled Gigantick Histories (1740–1743). Notable English illustrated books for children from that period were published by John Newbery ( A Little Pretty Pocket-Book from 1744 and The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes from 1765).
The anonymous story was published in London by the John Newbery company, a publisher of popular children's literature. [4] In his introduction to an 1881 edition of the book, [5] Charles Welsh wrote: Goody Two-Shoes was published in April 1765, and few nursery books have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position so long. The ...