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How Children's Literature has Changed, and Been Changed by Society Jim Thompson 10/21/19  Children's books are a ubiquitous part of our culture. They form the basis from which most kids learn to read as well as their first cultural experience and memory. Most children's books are also a child's first experience hearing about something without actually being there to experience it. This makes those books are essential in the development of a child. This is why I wanted to look into children's books, they are so crucial to children and thus overall societies further development, and more attention should be paid to them. One specific thing that I noticed while looking into changes in children's literature was the change based on time. Most things change with time, but children's books seem to have been one of the more affected parts of literature. We still read older books and stories in later years of school or as adults, but it is very rare for p