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- Eliot, Henrietta R. and Susan E. Blow. The Mottoes and Commentaries of Friedrich Froebel’s Mother Play. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902.
- Fletcher, Horace. That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine. Chicago: Kindergarten Literature Company of the Womans Temple, 1898.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. "Kindergarten—What is It?" The Atlantic Monthly 10 (November 1862): 586-593.
- Wiebé, Edward. Ed. Milton Bradley. Quarter Century Edition of the Paradise of Childhood; a Practical Guide to Kindergartners. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company, 1907.
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The Garden of Infants
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"Kindergarten"—the name gives it away. Advocated by the Prussian education reformer Friedrich Fröbel as an environment in which to nurture children like young plants in a garden, kindergarten came to the U.S. with German immigrants in the late 19th century. The first English-language kindergarten opened in 1860. Answer these questions about the institution.
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