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Laughter really is the best medicine.
Read this review. Read past issues of the Advertising Tips newsletter . It was also about this time that Mother Goose arrived on the scene with her now famous nursery rhymes. But these first examples of writing for children were more didactic than entertaining. They were based on adults assumptions of what childhood should be like, and were meant educate or impart a moral lesson.