Introduction: And in this book there are many houses -- This is the house that Ben built -- These are the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are the lessons taught from the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are the women who wrote the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- These are (not) the children who read the books that lived in the house that Ben built -- In the end
Summary
By focusing on the children's book business of the long eighteenth-century, €this book€argues that the thinking, knowing children of the Enlightenment are models for the technologically-connected, socially-conscious children of the twenty-first. The increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant children are bracketed between the two periods