Around The World in Children’s Stories
Children have always had stories. For thousands of years, as William Thackeray tells us, parents — be it “mothers by the banks of Yamuna, Arabs couched under the stars of the Syrian plains, or Northmen Vikings as they lay on their shields” — have all entertained kids through stories. 
A Brief History of Children's Literature
Look through a 17th-century archive, and you’d think children’s books were inked by the grim reaper. 
Keeping Imagination Alive
 Imagination is our ability to form mental images to give shape to ideas, abstract or otherwise.