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Children book's history.

Children books is books that wrote for children in the western world, it related to short and captivating history that at least more than a hundred years ago. These books have been existed for thousands of years. Kids' writing developed as a particular and free classification just somewhat more than two centuries back. Preceding the mid-eighteenth century books seldom were made for kids, and youngsters' perusing was by and large restricted to writing planned for their instruction and good enlightenment as opposed to for their delight. Some excellent works were distributed in the sixteenth and seventeenth hundreds of years, which served as points of reference for later classifications of youngsters' writing. An early case of a book committed to youngsters' amusements is the  1657  Les Jeux et Plaisirs de L'Enfance  (The Games and Pleasures of Childhood). Reference: Children Book Gallery. (.n.d)  Children's Book History    [online] Available

Dr Seuss "Green Eggs and Ham"

In the beginning of the 1965, the best seller book “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr Seuss was banned in China because of the “portrayal of early Marxism,” until 1991 after the author death. (Machlin, 2013) The book was also banned by a school from California, claimed that the book promoted homosexual agenda. I feel that, the book “Green Eggs and Ham” have a very deep meaning in it. Based on the my research, the book raises an important question, which is the relationship between beliefs and experiences. Some philosophers used the scenario of the story to shows that experience is important when people are making decisions (Teaching Children Philosophy, n.d.).  So why is the book banned? I think it could be the metaphor and the visual that Dr Suess used. This also agreed by Dr Seuss himself when he was in an interview talking about his books (Books Gone Wild, 2014)  Reference: Books Gone Wild . (2012)‘ Green eggs and a hefty slice of potentially unwelcomed homoerotic Marxism ’