To know more about a society- their lifestyle or culture, it is best recommended to read the books published in the era, that will give us a fair picture of how things were and how people’s lives were different from ours now. As children, both in schools and at homes, we used to read a lot of books, often about other countries, their civilizations, the wars that took place there and how their culture vastly differs from ours. The good news is, your children can also read the exact same books that you enjoyed, cover to cover, for free!
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Sitting at the comfort of your house, your kid can grab a copy and enjoy the “Elfin Rhymes”, originally published in 1900! The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature has made this feat possible. Over 6000 books from the gone-by era have been digitized for comfortable reader viewing, and all for free. An article published here, reveals how this library at the University of Florida has made it possible for us and our kids to get a sense of what authors in Britain and the US wanted their children to know and believe. The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature houses over 100,000 titles of 19th and 20th century British and American children’s literature of which more than 6000 books have been digitized for access to all.Â
So, if you and your child are book-lovers, you know exactly what you will be doing this week, all snuggled up with your favourite e-book in hand! Happy Reading!
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