Idyllic Childhood in the Fifties

G. Roy Fenwick, Hollis Dann & Robert Foresman.  The New High Road of Song.  Intermediate 1.  Toronto:  W.J. Gage Ltd., 1958.  Illustrations by Priscilla Hutchings.  Music drawn by J.R. Brooks.

Paul Witty, Ursula Bringhurst & Barbara Nolen.  The Brave and Free.  Boston:  D.C. Heath & Co., 1952, Revised 1950.  Illustrations by Harve Stein.

Was there really a time when childhood was regarded with such naivité?