The idea that children's literature should be light, carefree, and idyllically emptyheaded is a fairly recent one, a response to the early instructional primers, and Goody-Two Shoes moralizing of the late Victorians.
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The idea that children's literature should be light, carefree, and idyllically emptyheaded is a fairly recent one, a response to the early instructional primers, and Goody-Two Shoes moralizing of the late Victorians.
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