Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reader, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction for those nearing maturity.
Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which 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 cr...
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A lesson for children in 1727.
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original illustration (1865) by John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914), of the novel by ...
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Cover of the Argentine children's magazine Billiken N° 1. The image shows a boy to play football.
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An icon to represent "global thinking".
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An early Mexican hornbook.
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Author J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at the Easter Egg Roll at White...
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Frontispiece and decorative title page of 1819 edition of Brothers Grimm Kinder- und Hausmarchen, il...
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Cosplay at the Summer 2013 MCM London Comic Con at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
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Photography
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Statue of Minnie the Minx in Dundee, Scotland city centre
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Newbery, John. A Little Pretty Pocket Book.
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Number of children's books titles published by the trade sector, 2020
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Peter Pan
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Pinocchio by Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910) - the first illustrator (1883) of Le avventure di Pinocchio...
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Russian postal stamp block (6 stamps) about children's books. Cost 10,50 rubles.
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A drawing by Nandalal Bose illustrating "The Home" appearing in the 1913 Macmillan English-language ...