{"id":3630,"date":"2026-03-28T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:01:18","slug":"first-childrens-picture-book-published-1658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"First Children&#8217;s Picture Book Published 1658"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120329044934im_\/http:\/\/www.grexlat.com\/biblio\/comenius\/comenius.gif\" alt=\"Iohannes Amos Comenius\" width=\"126\" height=\"161\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johannes Amos Comenius<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Johannes Amos Comenius published the first children\u2019s picture book in 1658<\/strong>. <em>Orbis Pictus<\/em>, originally written in Latin, was also called <em>A World of Things Obvious to the Senses drawn in Pictures<\/em>. Children can read a 1727 English translation and a Latin version at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Amos Comenius published the first children\u2019s picture book in 1658. Orbis Pictus, originally written in Latin, was also called A World of Things Obvious to the Senses drawn in Pictures. Children can read a 1727 English translation and a Latin version at: Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5441,3588,3586,3585,3592,3587],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5441","tag-a-world-of-things-obvious-to-the-senses-drawn-in-pictures","tag-first-childrens-picture-book-in-1658","tag-johannes-amos-comenius","tag-march-28","tag-orbis-pictus","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21205,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/21205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}