Children's Books
Dublin Core
Title
Children's Books
Description
This collection includes novels intended for children from the late nineteenth century until 1948, which reflect broad ideas regarding gender, athletics, and heroism directly before and after the First World War.
This selection is intended to reflect books which would have been popularly produced and widely available to young readers during the years which preceded the war and the years that directly followed it, as a means of capturing a generation of children's literature during this tumultuous era.
In the description section, each entry is described, with context for their place within a series and some idea of the book's contents, along with key quotes drawn from each book.
The tags divide the books in this collection into the categories, "marketed for boys," "marketed for girls," regional setting, creator, and series-specific categories.
Each entry includes the year of publication, in order to reflect a complete timeline.
Effort has been made to locate widely available scans of these short novels through the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, or HathiTrust, located in the Website category.
When an object is located in the curator's personal collection, this status is noted in the Source category.
This selection is intended to reflect books which would have been popularly produced and widely available to young readers during the years which preceded the war and the years that directly followed it, as a means of capturing a generation of children's literature during this tumultuous era.
In the description section, each entry is described, with context for their place within a series and some idea of the book's contents, along with key quotes drawn from each book.
The tags divide the books in this collection into the categories, "marketed for boys," "marketed for girls," regional setting, creator, and series-specific categories.
Each entry includes the year of publication, in order to reflect a complete timeline.
Effort has been made to locate widely available scans of these short novels through the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, or HathiTrust, located in the Website category.
When an object is located in the curator's personal collection, this status is noted in the Source category.
Creator
Galen Bunting
Source
Works Cited:
Cheek, Richard. Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871-1918. Grolier Club, 2018.
Collins, Ross F. "This is your propaganda, kids: Building a war myth for World War I children." Journalism History 38.1 (2012): 13-22.
Mosse, George L. Fallen soldiers: Reshaping the memory of the world wars. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Paul, Lissa, Rosemary R. Johnston, and Emma Short, editors. Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War. Routledge, 2016.
Collection Items
The Boy Volunteers With The British Artillery
Part of Kenneth Ward's The Boy Volunteers Books, advertised as "The Newest Boys' Books on the European War, Relating the Adventures of Two American Boys and Their Experiences in Battle and on Air Scout Duty. All Profusely Illustrated with Authentic…
Valerie Duval: Somewhere In France
Published in 1918, Valerie Duval: Somewhere in France is part of the Somewhere Series by Martha Trent. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of a nurse inset. The image shows a young girl, dressed in a white nurse uniform, which includes a…
The Moving Picture Boys on French Battlefields
The Moving Picture Boys on French Battlefields; or, Taking Pictures for the U.S. Army is the tenth number in the Moving Picture Boys series. It is a cloth volume, illustrated. Its cover depicts two young boys operating a video camera. The cover is…
Captain Lucy In France
This book is the second in the "Captain Lucy" series by Aline Harvard. The introduction describes the book as follows: "To those who made friends with Lucy Gordon on Governor’s Island it will seem a great change to find her, in this second story, so…
Captain Jack Lorimer or The Young Athletes of Millvale High
The second in the series by Winn Standish, Captain Jack Lorimer or the Young Athletes of Millvale High tells the story of Jack Lorimer, a young athlete. From the original sales sheet: "Jack Lorimer is a fine example of the all-around American…
Tom Brown's Schooldays
A didactic school story, Tom Brown's Schooldays was intended to instill young boys in the tradition of British masculinity, through providing positive examples of tenacity, athletics, and schoolboy bravery. Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular…
Tom Brown at Oxford
Thomas Hughes was an adherent of Muscular Christianity, a philosophical movement of the nineteenth century. which promoted a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism. Thomas…
Alice Blythe: Somewhere in England
Sublished in 1918, Alice Blythe: Somewhere in England by Martha Trent is part of the "Somewhere in War" series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. The hardback cover is olive, with the image of…
Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy
Published in 1918, Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy by Martha Trent is part of the Somewhere series. Each volume details the story of a girl in a different country during the First World War. Cloth. Illustrated.
From the dustcover: "Around a…
From the dustcover: "Around a…