Title: Making Americans
Description: Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
Subjects: Children's literature, American, History and criticism, National characteristics, American, in literature, Democracy in literature, Children's literature, Publishing, History, Children, Books and reading, Children's literature, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature, Children, books and reading, Democracy, Literature, American National characteristics
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century