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History of Children's Literature in the United States

IS there any info on kids stories and native americans or spaniards in US? I doubt it. Did spaniards have a printing press in US?

1600s
Books were among items brought by those coming to New World. The same tales enjoyed by children in Europe would have been told to children here. First (European) book published for children was by John Cotton: Milk for Babes: A Catechism in Verse Opens "Who is the maker of all things? The Almighty God who reigns on high. He form'd the earth, He spread the sky."

New England Primer: An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading was being printed by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. "In Adam's fall We sinned all." It also has Ten Commandments and other Bible passages, prayers, poems, the catechism and woodcut pictures. Pictures include people contemplating tombstones and the burning of Mr. John Rogers, with his wife and ten children looking on.

1700s
1785 -- the Original Mother Goose's Melody printed by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass around 1785.

Didactic, Moralistic: Samuel G. Goodrich wrote as Peter Parley wrote biography, geography, history and science. Martha Finlay's Elsie series.

1900
By 1900 first children's libraries established in US.

1918 first "Sustained body of criticism"" by Anne Carroll Moore.

1919 first chidren's publishing department probably in world, MacMillan, with May Massee as editor. Also that year the first Children's Book Week was held, and the Newbery Award was initiated, be given for the first time in 1922. Twelve million children's books published in US, four hunderd and thirty three new.

1920s-1930s development of picture books. There's a paragraph here on early development. Also the same for books for the very young.

1924 Horn book Magazine publiched.

1927 thirty-one million children's books published in US.

1938 the first Caldecott was given.

Themes
Cech on page xi discusses dreams and misbehavior and how the treatment developed in kids lit.