Children's Typography
1895
Children's typography is now a trend in modern times but this wasn't always so. The first introduction of typography to children's book was in 1895 by Lewis Carroll in Alice Adventures in Wonderland.
CrictorTomi Ungerers
1959
Ungerers was one of the artist that decided to go
against the normal limitations that
librarians had on
children's book by ignoring old fashions ways. For the first time a snake was used as the main character in a story book.
Typewriter TownWilliam Jay Smith
1960
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Typewriter Town
introduced a type that was
unfamiliar to children and used it to create elementary images. Smith was
influenced by Carroll's
mouse tail from
Alice Adventures in Wonderland.
Little 1Paul and Ann Rand
2006http://adland.tv/content/little-1-ann-and-paul-rand
Paul and Ann Rand also created a typographical children's book in which typewriter type was incorporated into child
animations.
Understanding Comics
My adobe shuts down everytime I try to open this reading =(