Why Picture Books Were Once Considered Dangerous for Children

Why Picture Books Were Once Considered Dangerous for Children

To anyone familiar with modern elementary schools, a classroom in colonial New England would look strange in many ways. Perhaps most obviously, the curriculum was almost exclusively religious. But in some respects, a bigger difference was the focus on teaching children in entirely abstract ways, without picture books or references to students’ real-world experiences.

Now, there were stories about animals, many more illustrations of children behaving in positive ways.

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