From Hornbook to Hamster-Box: Stasis in the Reading Industry.(gift to Bodleian Library of most school readers published in U.S.)

From: The Horn Book Magazine | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: ALDERSON, BRIAN | Copyright information

An American professor of education made a gift to the Bodleian Library in Oxford of almost all of the readers published in the U.S. during the first thirty years of the 1900s. The books were grubby, well-thumbed, inked, with loose covers. But the books were rare for England. Through them, it is possible to follow the paths of a couple of generations of educators in bringing literacy to American youth.

A few months ago I was in the Bodleian Library in Oxford appraising a large barro...

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