Children’s 68: introduction

Abstract

In the years around ‘68, children’s books and media became caught up in the current of turbulence, protest and countercultural agitation that characterised this era. A new motif emerged – the children’s version of the raised fist of the revolutionary. It appeared in imprint logos, sometimes holding a lollipop aloft, often with a child’s face imposed on it, or on badges for children handed out with magazines, or even, in the case of a German picturebook Fünf Finger sind eine Faust (Five finger..