Tablet to Tablet: Children’s Books and Fairy Tales

This week we've been exploring the history of children's books. Books designed for children's enjoyment—and not just as a tool of instruction or for moral education—date back to the late 1600s. But the fairy tale is even older!  Fairy tales originated as oral folktales, passed down from generation to generation through word of mouth, and they…
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Tablet to Tablet: The Codex

The codex is considered the first book form—pages bound together and placed between two thicker pieces of material—and the earliest example appears in the historical record in the first century CE. Codices had many advantages over the scroll: they were portable, readers could easily locate a specific section of the text, and they could contain longer…
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Tablet to Tablet: Paper!

While papyrus was still king in Egypt and Europe, another medium was being invented in China―paper. What separates "true" paper from the papyrus and parchment that came before it is that it is made up of fiber. Paper has been made from asparagus stalks, bark, cactus, cotton, ivory, leather, linen, manure, moss, nettles, peat, pollen, potatoes…
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