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Abstract
Children’s Literature is a remarkable area of writing: it is one of the roots of western culture; it is enjoyed passionately by adults as well as by children. It involves and integrates words and pictures; it overlaps into other modes – video, oral storytelling – and other art forms. Children’s Literature seems at first sight to be a simple idea: books for children, books read by children. But in theory and practice it is vastly more complicated than that. Children’s Literature started with the common approach that denies the existence of a genre ’writing for children’ and insists that a good children’s book is a good book ”in its own right”. A conventional history of children’s books might begin with the period before 1744, when most of the books used by children – educational texts, chapbooks, tracts, and folktales- were used by adults as well. One of the most influential of London booksellers in this time, John Newbery, brought out one of the first commercial books for children: A Little Pretty Pocket Book. Generally, the form and content of children’s books lag behind the form and content of the adult book, and the adventure story provides a good example, as in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Fabian Edith Nesbit was the most influential writer of her period in the long term with her works; The Treasure Seekers, Wet Magic, Five Children and It, The Would be goods, and The Railway Children. She was an English author and poet whose children’s works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adopted for film and television. The real change in writing for children comes with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1864), George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin (1871), and charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies (1862), as those works began the ’first golden age (1860-1920)’.