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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Wilton

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Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children

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The Road to Busytown: Richard Scarry’s Life in Fairfield County

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Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford

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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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Killingworth’s Automated Attraction – Who Knew?

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Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak

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Cromwell’s Iron Men Made Toys for Boys and Girls

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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

  • Writer:
    Steve Thornton

  • Town(s):
    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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