Children literature, or juvenile literature, includes stories, books, magazines and poems created for children. Alongside its conventional literary genres, modern children literature is further classified by the intended age of its reader, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction for those nearing maturity.
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Place of OriginTraced to traditional fairy tales, only identified as children's literature since the seventeenth century, and to oral songs adults shared with children before publishing existed. 1 Notable ExampleLewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), credited with shifting children's writing toward an imaginative and empathetic style. 1 Defining TraitStories, books, magazines and poems created for children, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction. 1 Typical Audience Defining Trait Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Elisabetta Dami
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Source Wikipedia: The Adventures of Pinocchio
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Source Wikipedia: Uri Orlev
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1. Children Literature (Wikipedia)
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Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.
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Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the seventeenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which adults shared with children before publishing existed.
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However, it was Lewis Carroll's fantasy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 in England, that signaled the change in writing style for children to an imaginative and empathetic one.
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Children's literature or juvenile literature
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Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.
View the Source Wikipedia: Cressida Cowell
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won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award
Monica Dickens (Wikipedia)
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From 1970 onwards she wrote a number of children's books
Emmy von Rhoden (Wikipedia)
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considered an international classic of Children's literature
Silvana De Mari (Wikipedia)
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an Italian writer of children's fiction
Clementine Helm (Wikipedia)
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a widely read author of books for children and young adults
Rudyard Kipling (Wikipedia)
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His children's books are classics
Roald Dahl (Wikipedia)
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a British author of popular children's literature and short stories
Wikipedia: The Adventures of Pinocchio
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Genre: Fantasy, adventure, children's literature
Wikipedia: Jo Nesbø
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Crime fiction, horror fiction, mystery fiction, Children's literature, children's books
Wikipedia: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Autobiography, belles-lettres, essays, children's literature
Wikipedia: Andreas Steinhöfel
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Andreas Steinhöfel (German: [anˈdʁeːas ˈʃtaɪnˌhøːfl̩] ; born 14 January 1962) is a German author for children and young adult books, and a translator.
Wikipedia: Uri Orlev
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Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב; 24 February 1931-26 July 2022) born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski, was a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator.
Wikipedia: Elisabetta Dami
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Elisabetta Maria Dami (born 1 January 1958) is an Italian children's author.
The Railway Children (Wikipedia)
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The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit.
The Island on Bird Street (Wikipedia)
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The Island on Bird Street (Hebrew: האי ברחוב הציפורים; The Island on Birds Street) is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's book by Israeli author Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב), which tells the story of a young boy, Alex, and his struggle to survive alone in a ghetto during World War II.
Cocorí (Wikipedia)
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Cocorí is Costa Rican author Joaquín Gutiérrez's most popular children's book, perhaps only topped by La Hoja de Aire.
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