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Children's literatureorjuvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction.
Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scientific standpoints with the influences of Charles Darwin and John Locke. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are known as the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" because many classic children's books were published then. (Full article...)
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Benjamin, Flopsaut and the little rabbits from The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, original version written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter
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Chinua Achebe Argosy (magazine) Bronwyn Bancroft Enid Blyton The Coral Island Edmund Evans Ian Fleming The Fox and the Hound (novel) Anne Frank The Guardian of Education The Hardy Boys The Hunger Games (novel) Lad, A Dog Ursula K. Le Guin Julianne Moore Baron Munchausen The Phantom Tollbooth Proserpine (play) Talbot Baines Reed Sally Ride J. K. Rowling Scoops (magazine) Mary Martha Sherwood The Story of Miss Moppet Tom Swift To Kill a Mockingbird J. R. R. Tolkien When Megan Went Away A Wizard of Earthsea Mary Wollstonecraft
Andre Norton Award Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel Caldecott Medal S. E. Hinton bibliography Coretta Scott King Award Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling Madonna bibliography Newbery Medal Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft
Children's literature: Book talk • Children's literature criticism • Children's literature periodicals • International Children's Digital Library • Native Americans in children's literature
Young adult literature: Gay teen fiction • Lesbian teen fiction • List of young adult authors • Young Adult Library Services Association
Associations and awards: Children's Book Council of Australia • CBCA book awards • Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature and Illustration • IBBY Canada • American Library Association • Association for Library Service to Children • Newbery Medal • Caldecott Medal • Golden Kite Award • Ezra Jack Keats Book Award • SCBWI • Sibert Medal • Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal • Batchelder Award • Coretta Scott King Award • Belpre Medal • Carnegie Medal • Kate Greenaway Medal • Nestlé Smarties Book Prize • Guardian Award • Hans Christian Andersen Award • Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Lists: List of children's classic books • List of children's literature authors • List of children's non-fiction writers • List of fairy tales • List of illustrators • List of publishers of children's books
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