Portal:Children_and_Young_Adult_Literature
Portal:Children's literature
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 stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that 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...)
An illustration by William Wallace Denslow of Humpty Dumpty, the character of the classic English nursery rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
- June 1908 – Publication of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, which has since been translated into 20 languages and sold 50 million copies
- June 1938 – First appearance of Superman (pictured), in Action Comics
- 20 June 1941 - Armstrong Sperry awarded the Newbery Medal for Call It Courage
- 25 June 2006 – The Children's Party at the Palace, held in honor of the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II held at Buckingham Palace Garden
- 26 June 1905 - Birth of Lynd Ward, illustrator of 200 juvenile and adult books and one of the founders of the American graphic novel
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- ...that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library (pictured) in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
- ...that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
- ...that Philip Pullman's novel Clockwork was adapted into an opera for children?
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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