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The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
First edition (with top of Big Bird's head). Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America is a 2020 book by David Kamp about Sesame Street and other progressive educational programs for children developed in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, The Electric Company, Free to Be...
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon, novel of the changes from 1960s to 1980s counterculture in Northern California; Summer of Love, by Lisa Mason, novel about the period; Baby Driver, a semi-autobiographical novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack Kerouac; My Hippie Grandmother, a children's picture book by Reeve Lindbergh and Abby Carter, 2003
Pages in category "Children's books set in the 1960s" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This category is for articles on books for children and young adults written or published in 1970. Children's literature portal; ... 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s ...
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1960 through 1969 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...