What Was The First Version Of Children In The Early 1900s Change Children's Literature?
1. What was the first ‘real’ children’s book in English? What made it the first of its kind? (20 pts)
The first 'real' children's book in English was called; A Pretty Little Pocket Book. John Newbary published it in 1744.
The book included games, fables and rhymes for children. This book was the first of its kind, as for the first time in history a book's target audience were children. Till then, all books were written for adults only.
2. How did the legislation of labour laws for children in the early 1900s change children’s literature? …show more content…
What makes chapbooks an early version of children’s comic books? (20 pts)
Chapbooks are considered as medieval comics for children as they included funny rhymes and folklore in them. These folklore and rhymes meant to children the same as comics are today.
4. How are witch’s ‘familiars’ related to Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes? (20 pts)
It is known that witches are friendly with 'a familiar', an evil spirit in a form of an animal, mostly a black cat, but not always; it can be in any other form of a small animal (goats, mice, bats, frogs, pigs, ravens, geese, etc.). In Mother Goose nursery rhymes, we find mother Goose friendly with geese.
5. The nursery rhyme “There Was an Old Woman” (page 44) was originally conceived as a political satire. Who was the ‘old woman’? Who were her children? (20 pts)
It is believed that the old woman refers to King George II in the 18th century. King George used to wear white powdered wig, which are similar to women's' wings. The old woman children are the members of the House of Parliament. The satire is that the king controls his parliament's member as if a mother controls her children: she whip them when she is angry and sends them to bed as punishment. The political satire was hidden in the children's
The first 'real' children's book in English was called; A Pretty Little Pocket Book. John Newbary published it in 1744.
The book included games, fables and rhymes for children. This book was the first of its kind, as for the first time in history a book's target audience were children. Till then, all books were written for adults only.
2. How did the legislation of labour laws for children in the early 1900s change children’s literature? …show more content…
What makes chapbooks an early version of children’s comic books? (20 pts)
Chapbooks are considered as medieval comics for children as they included funny rhymes and folklore in them. These folklore and rhymes meant to children the same as comics are today.
4. How are witch’s ‘familiars’ related to Mother Goose’s nursery rhymes? (20 pts)
It is known that witches are friendly with 'a familiar', an evil spirit in a form of an animal, mostly a black cat, but not always; it can be in any other form of a small animal (goats, mice, bats, frogs, pigs, ravens, geese, etc.). In Mother Goose nursery rhymes, we find mother Goose friendly with geese.
5. The nursery rhyme “There Was an Old Woman” (page 44) was originally conceived as a political satire. Who was the ‘old woman’? Who were her children? (20 pts)
It is believed that the old woman refers to King George II in the 18th century. King George used to wear white powdered wig, which are similar to women's' wings. The old woman children are the members of the House of Parliament. The satire is that the king controls his parliament's member as if a mother controls her children: she whip them when she is angry and sends them to bed as punishment. The political satire was hidden in the children's