Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books
Michelle Markel
This picture-book biography recounts John Newbery’s role in eighteenth-century children’s publishing. At a time when books for children largely aimed to instruct or moralize, Newbery set out to make books that also included stories, science, games, rhymes, pictures, ABCs, and proverbs. From his London shop, he published a book of games and later a magazine and The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes. The account traces how his publishing ideas helped change the kinds of books made for children.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
