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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books
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Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
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Little Nutmeggers: Four Centuries of Children’s Clothes and Games
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The Ives Manufacturing Company: Connecticut’s Foremost Toy Maker
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Birthplace of the Gerber Baby – Who Knew?
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Lee’s Academy: An Icon of Education for 200 Years
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Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak
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The Child’s Picture Defining and Reading Book by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education
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Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8
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Wiffle Throws a Curve in American Leisure Time
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Child Labor in Connecticut
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Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
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The Kewpies Buy A House in Westport
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The Public Library Movement: Caroline Hewins Makes Room for Young Readers
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Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set – Today in History: February 15
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A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders
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Hartford
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Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck
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Plainfield Academy: Preparing Connecticut Scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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