A Celebration of Year Zero

Children's magazines founded: The Parent's Gift, or Youth's Magazine • The Juvenile Reformer and Sabbath School Instructor; Journal of Reform • The Juvenile Repository • Youth's Magazine; or, Spirit of the Juvenile Miscellany • Classical Journal and Scholar's Review; Juvenile Rambler; Juvenile Rambler, or, Family and School Journal • Expostulator, or Young Catholic's Guide • The Juvenile Key; Family Pioneer and Juvenile Key • Juvenile Magazine, and Youth's Monthly Visiter • Mentor and Youth's Instructive Companion

Samuel Goodrich gives young readers an education both intellectual & moral.

Peter Parley's Juvenile Tales, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Children's magazines founded: The Acorn • The Sabbath School Friend • Young Catholic's Magazine • Youth's Monitor • The Sabbath School Monitor; Sunday School Monitor; Light Ship and Sabbath School Monitor

W. L. Underhill gives readers an educational & relaxing visit to the country.

William and Eliza; or, The Visit

Children's magazines founded: The Sunday-Scholar's Mirror • Youth's Dayspring; Journal of Missions and Youth's Dayspring • The Youth's Friend • The Juvenile Weekly Gazette • The Mentor • Youth's Monthly Magazine • Fireside Miscellany and Young People's Encyclopedia

"Cousin Sarah" promotes the alphabet, Caroline Gilman promotes math education for girls, "Uncle Frank" promotes rational thought, & "Robert Merry" promotes some really ugly nineteenth-century attitudes.

Stories for Children, Cousin Sarah (abt now)
"The Arabian Nights" (Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet, September)
"The Indian's Story" (Robert Merry's Museum, January)
"The King of Ashantee" (Robert Merry's Museum, March)
"Deer Hunting," by "Simon Sassafras" (Robert Merry's Museum, May)
"Adventures with Ghosts," by Mrs. Hall (Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet, May)
"Effie Somers," by W. (Youth's Companion, May)
"Who Will Make a Good Wife" (Youth's Companion, May)
Mary Newell's letter (August)
"Amy's Holiday" (Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet, September)
"Clara Sinclair," by Caroline Gilman (Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet, September)
"Caspar Hauser" (Robert Merry's Museum, October)
"The Change of the Seasons" (Robert Merry's Museum, November)
"Laughing Bill" (Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet, November)
"Left-Handed Billy" (Robert Merry's Museum, December)

Children's magazines founded: The Youth's Temperance Visitor • Youth's Gazette • Children's Guest • Youth's Magazine • Sunday School Journal; Sunday School Journal for Teachers and Young People; Sunday School Journal for Teachers; Sunday School Journal and Bible Student's Magazine; The Sunday School Journal • The Lutheran Sunday-School Herald

Margaretta receives a set of Robert Merry's Museum, Rainbow gets a job, & Mary Randolph teaches Virginians how to cook. And America loses an influential writer for children.

"Letter to My Daughter Margaretta, with a Set of Merry's Museum," by William Ross Wallace (April)
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: The Three Pines, by Jacob Abbott
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Selling Lucky, by Jacob Abbott
Stories of Rainbow and Lucky: Up the River, by Jacob Abbott
The Virginia Housewife, Mary Randolph

"Death of Samuel Goodrich"
"'Peter Parley'--As Known to His Daughter," by Emily Goodrich Smith

Children's magazines founded: Der Jugend-Pilger • The Infants' Delight; Infants' Delight • The Pacific Youth • Pictures and Stories • Young Folks' Monthly • Young Folks' Rural • The Young Sportsman • Young Sportsman • The Little Corporal's School Festival; School Festival; National School Festival • Work and Play • The Pious Youth • Our Leisure Moments • American Boy's Magazine; Philadelphia Monthly • The Young Catholic

Mary Ann Hallock illustrates life's minutiae, & Merry's Museum sticks to the sexist, racist nineteenth-century status quo.

"The Doctor's Little Girl," by C. Alice Baker (Robert Merry's Museum)
"Young Italy in Boston," by "Stella" (Robert Merry's Museum, January)
"Hunting Eggs," by Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks, January)
"The Chinese in California," by Lucy St. John (Robert Merry's Museum February)
"At Grandma's Bedside," by Edgar Fawcett & Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks, May)
"Spring Whistles," by Lucy Larcom & Mary Ann Hallock (Our Young Folks, May)
"A Young Savage," by A. Perry (Robert Merry's Museum November)