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Dave Dawson series R. Sidney Bowen: 1941–1946 Red Randall series: R. Sidney Bowen: 1944–1946 8 The Last Kids on Earth: Max Brallier: 2015–present 9 + 5 spinoffs Clifford the Big Red Dog: Norman Bridwell: 1963–2015 80 Arthur: Marc Brown: 1976–2011 46 Lola Levine: Monica Brown: 2015–2017 6 Sarai: Monica Brown: 2018–present 4 Babar ...
Earliest picture book specifically for children. [9] [10] A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children: James Janeway: 1672: One of the first books specifically written for children which shaped much eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing for ...
Janet and John is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in four volumes in 1949–50, and one of the first to make use of the "look and say" approach. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.
The books sold nearly 100 million copies worldwide. This series competed at the time with the Dick and Jane educational series. [1] Both the Alice & Jerry series and the competing Dick & Jane series of textbooks were designed to be taught using the "Look and Say" method, rather than being taught using a Phonics-centric teaching method.
Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [181] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
The Childcraft series was originally created in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie & Company, then publishers of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun.
Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar. Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020). [1]
Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...