History of books with picture books (timeline)

Writing
	Pictures of people, animals, things - pictograms
	Signs - on clay tablets, stone Sumerians - cuneiform (800 symbols) Egyptians - hieroglyphs (700 symbols) Chinese - characters (2000 symbols) Maya - glyphs	3500 BC 2400 BC
	Alphabet - letters for sounds - 26 Greek Cyrillic Roman
Paper
	natural materials - wood, bone, bamboo slats, stone wax on wood papyrus - from plants Alexandria library, King Ptolemy - rolls parchment - animal skins paper bamboo - silk boiled wood strips into pulp	500 BC 295 BC     105 BC
	Illuminated manuscripts - Monks	500 AD
	Bible
Printing
	wood blocks with words - Chinese with single letters - movable type - Koreans printing press - Johannes Guternberg metal type printing machines popular books dime novels and penny dreadfuls	600 AD 1300 AD 1450 AD 1885 AD 1860-1920
Libraries
	Mesopotamia - clay tablets	2000 BC
	Ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt (Alexandria) -scrolls	1000 BC
	Palestines- Dead Sea Scolls	1000 AD
	Universities - books (Harvard 1638)	1600
	Public libraries Bibiliotecha Alexandria today	1800 2005

worksheet - Books Through the Ages (Highsmith)

Bibliography

Books - overview

• Book. by Karen Brookfield (002)
• History of making books (002)

Writing

• First painter, by Kathryn Lasky (E)
• Painters of the caves, by Patrick Lauber (759.01)
• Alphabetical order: how the alphabet began, by Tiphaine Samoyault
• History of writing (Calliope) (411)
• Writing (Faces magazine) (411)
• Writing, by Amanda Lewis (411)
• Writing: story of alphabets and scripts, by Georges Jean (411)
• The journey of English, by Donna Brook (420.9)
• Language (Kids Discover)

Paper

• How paper is made, by Lesley Perrins (676)
• Paper, Elizabeth Simpson Smith (676)
• Paper through the ages, by Shaaron Cosner (676)
• Story of paper, by Ying Chang Compestine (E)

Illuminations

• Illuminations, by Jonathan Hunt (E)
• Marguerite makes a book, by Bruce Robertson (E)

Printing

• Anna the bookbinder, by Andrea Cheng (E)
• Breaking into print, by Krensky (686.2)
• Fine Print (Gutenberg), by Burch (686.2)
• Gutenberg, by Leonard Everett Fisher (686)

Libraries

• Andrew Carnegie, builder of libraries, by Simon (027)
• Books is a box, by Stotts (027)
• Check it out! the booke about libraries, by Gail Gibbons (027)
• Down Cut Shin Creek: pack horse librarians, by Apelt (027)
• Inside - outside Book of Libraries, by Roxie Munro (027)
• Librarian of Basra: true story from Iraq, by Winter (027)
• The Library of Alexandria, by Kelly Trumble (027)