Reading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiems fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much childrens literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of childrens literature and the history of educationas well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiems creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World