The Little Golden Book Analysis

Picture your earliest childhood memories and hold them in your mind. Now, from those memories, think of your favorite book. Perhaps it is the book that your parent or grandparent read to you to help you sleep, the book from which you first learned to read, or even one you still have a copy of sitting on a bookshelf in your home. Although our world has become increasingly digital, there is one thing that links Americans and Europeans, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and even Millennials, they were all raised on picture books. But how did bound blocks of paper and ink become such integral parts of our upbringing? After all, illustrated children’s books have only been around for roughly three hundred years, while our species has been walking the …show more content…
Once again in order to survive these hardships three things occurred, but in a much more drastic fashion than in Europe. First, production was steeply cut, almost to nothing, like the unfit members of a species in the wild slowly “dying off.” Second the process that was cheapest and produced the most favorable return was implemented, thus that process would be “inherited” and passed on since it was most successful. In this case The Little Golden Books eventually proved to be the best process and most successful, thus it was based down and helped the market to survive and eventually thrive again. Then finally, as the environment and the market changed again, becoming favorable or not, this process was repeated until the American children’s book market as we know it today developed. This market is distinctly different than the European market however. This difference is mainly because to the fact that the American market had and continues to, cater to a larger audience. Thus it has eventually grown larger than its cousin as time has gone