The affecting and instructing history of chapbooks for children, as developed particularly by Mr John Newbery, printer and bookseller.

Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The affecting and instructing history of chapbooks for children, as developed particularly by Mr John Newbery, printer and bookseller. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Chapbooks for Children

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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