America’s First Children’s Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Americas-First-Childrens-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/5/2003 America’s First Children’s Magazine Transcript In 1826 Lydia Maria Child founded the Juvenile Miscellany which has been called the “first children’s magazine in America.” Child’s biographer, Carolyn Karcher, writes that Child “helped shape children’s literature into a powerful medium for socializing the young into the […]