Figure 1.--This is a series of French children's books from the early 20th century which addressed a wide range of subjects.. The covers used two children on the various covers. The boy wears a red smock with different collars. (I don't think that was very common.) The girl wears a yellow dress in the 1909 issue and a yellow pinafore in the 1920s issues. Notice the change in fashion without significant change in the style of cover.

We do not yet have enough information on types of French children's books to understand chronological trends. We have begun to collect information and hope to better understnd trends as HBC develops. We note activity books in the 1920s. We see some popular series in the 1950s-60s. Hopefully our French readers will be able to provide more information here. What we want to understand is how types of children's literature in France changed over time. And of course these books also provide us alook at children's fashions over time.

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