Now often called the "Golden Age of Children's Books," the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic--writers such as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, and Charles Dickens--wrote some of their finest work primarily for children. It was an era in America that produced such timeless childhood classics as Little Women, The...