Patricia Crain. Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 280 pp. - Paul B. Ringel. Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823–1918. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 272 pp. - Allison Speicher. Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools

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Patricia Crain. Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 280 pp. - Paul B. Ringel. Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823–1918. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 272 pp. - Allison Speicher. Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. 248 pp. - Volume 59 Issue 2