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  2. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature or juvenile 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 .

  3. Portal:Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature or juvenile 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 ...

  4. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  5. Picture book - Wikipedia

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    A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images in picture books can be produced in a range of media, such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and ...

  6. List of children's classic books - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language.. Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children. In Europe, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press around 1440 made possi

  7. The Chronicles of Narnia - Wikipedia

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    The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts and talking animals. It narrates the adventures of various children who ...

  8. Literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. A separate genre of children's literature only began to emerge in the eighteenth century, with the development of the concept of childhood.

  9. Children's fantasy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Children's fantasy is children's literature with fantasy elements: fantasy intended for young readers. [1] It may also mean fantasy read by children, regardless of the intended audience. [2] The genre has roots in folk tales such as Aesop's Fables that were not originally intended for children: before the Victorian era, fairytales were ...

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