Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I.
American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L.
Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr.
, and Richard Harding Davis, as well as unique journalistic examples including the children's page of the Chicago Defender , subverts the idea of news.
In these works, journalism is not a rep.