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Children's literature orjuvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created forchildren. In addition to conventionalliterary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reader, ranging frompicture books for the very young toyoung adult fiction for those nearing maturity.
Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories likefairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wideroral 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 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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Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion inThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) byL. Frank Baum
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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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