Children's Lit: Alphabets

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Across
  1. 3. These books included alphabets beginning in the 1870s, such as animals hiding behind letters
  2. 5. In 1667 an alphabet in the New England Primer included, “In Adam's fall…”
  3. 8. Johann Comenius wrote this first picture book for children
  4. 9. A sixteen-page booklet with alphabets and rhymes
  5. 11. Children who did not learn quickly enough could be this
  6. 12. what was used instead of a book made of horn with a handle
  7. 13. morning How long children in the 1880s recited the alphabet
Down
  1. 1. Some edible hornbooks were made of this
  2. 2. Where some poor children went if parents could afford it
  3. 4. varnished sheet of cardboard folded to make a booklet
  4. 6. Alphabet books featuring 26 African tribes
  5. 7. What is for “D” in the picture alphabet
  6. 10. and backward beginners recited the alphabet this way