Typography for Children

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.

Crictor
Tomi 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 Town
William Jay Smith
1960
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/212118558_45d08c7b26.jpg
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 1
Paul and Ann Rand
2006
http://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 =(