num_pages: 240
description: In Behold the Child, Gillian Avery offers an engaging account of children's literature in America from colonial times to the early twentieth century.
language: English
title: Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922
titlecomplete: Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922
genres: Reference
ratings_count: 13
publisher: The Bodley Head