In 1745 George Washington was a 13 year old school-boy in Virginia when he wrote down a list of social rules in his workbook entitles…
That’s the Concert Glee Club from the King Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu singing a song that celebrates those early explorers, the Wayfarers, from the ancient Marquesas and Polynesia.
One of the first images in America’s Children, Picturing Childhood from Early America to the Present, by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin, is a small,…
In May of 1824 in Philadelphia, The American Sunday School Union was established to serve as a clearinghouse for the many Sunday Schools which had…
Although Tony Sarg wrote over a dozen children’s books, and as a youngster dreamed of becoming an illustrator, he possessed and displayed a mechanical ingenuity,…
Albert Einstein is back, relatively speaking, that is. Einstein is the subject of a group of new books for young people — a picture book…
One of the oldest and most influential Italian folk tales is the legend of Cupid and Psyche, as told by the Roman philosopher, Lucius Apuleius…
What do Children, Culture, and Violence have to do with each other, one might ask. Unfortunately, the answer is: everything. Just as violence is, alas,…
Clarissa Barton, the woman who became known as Clara, was born December 25, 1821, the youngest by ten years of five children. She was a…
Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever…