Editing Zerna Sharp (section)

===Response to criticisms===
The Dick and Jane readers, which included titles such as ''We Look and See'', ''We Come and Go'', ''We Work and Play'', and ''Fun with Dick and Jane'', among others, monopolized the market for several decades and reached the height of their popularity in the 1950s, when 80 percent of first-grade students in the United States were learning to read though the Dick and Jane stories.<ref name=GS304-05/><ref name=Gabriel/> However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, critics of the Dick and Jane readers began to point out its stereotypes; concerns about class, gender, and racial bias; and errors in content and illustrations. Increasing social changes, including the [[civil rights movement]] in the 1960s, also made the characters of "Dick and Jane seem increasingly irrelevant to some."<ref name=Gabriel/> Sharp, who was proud of the series and objected to the harsh criticism,<ref name=GS304-05/> replied, "That's all an adult's viewpoint."<ref name=NYT-6-1981/>