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 Connections
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1. Children Literature (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_literature, lead paragraph, first sentence
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_literature, lead paragraph, second sentence
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_literature, Golden age section, Alice's Adventures sentence
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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