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History of Children's Literature
Early Beginnings (c.600 A.D)
Old English period
Aldhelm (640 709 A.D.)
Bishop of Sherborne
The first lesson books for children
Pattern for all books untill 1500 A.D.
Question and answer form
The Venerable Bede (673-735 A.D.)teacher at a monastery school.
More imagination
Spark of learning
The knowledge
Natural science
Natural history
Plants and flower
stars
Egbert of York 766 A.D.)
school of York.
Collected the works and book
Wrote variety of lesson books
Wrote many books on grammar
Anselm (1034 1109 A.D.)
Archbishop of Canterbury
first encyclopedia for children
Elucidarium
manner
moral education
nature science
The Middle English Period
William the Conqueror invaded england and won
French words were introduced into English
ended 1456 by the invention of the printing press of Gutenberg
Renaissance (1400-1700 A.D.)
comes from the French words
first book is The Bible
William Caxton
the first English printer
Aesop’s Fables in 1484
printed in Latin and English in 1585
Hornbook and Battledore
created in 1550
Book is very expensive
permanent book
used by children
In 1746 rhymed alphabets and numbers was published in the battledore version
Puritan Times 1660s
Gloomy
fear of God than in the love of life.
Famous Works
Obis Pictus by John Amos Comenius (The First important
illustrated book for children)
Milk for Babes by John Cotton
The New England Primer by Harris
The Token for Children by James Janeway
Pilgrim s Progress by John Bunyan
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventure of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The chapbook
forerunner of comic books
It was sold by peddlers for pennies at markets and fairs.
for pleasure
It was considered vulgar and corruptive
Theory of John Locke
Tubula Rasa
Forerunner of behaviorism
Children developed in response to nurturing
Charles Perrault’s Fairy Stories
-Frenchman
Tales of My Mother Goose
The Sleeping
Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Little Thumb
John Newbery
Father of Children’s
Literature
Children only
conceived the idea of publishing books for the enjoyment and entertainment of children
Jean Jacques Rousseau
French
philosopher
Emile
children be given freedom to develop their natural interests and learn from actual experience.
who started a new
philosophy in the education of children.
18th-19th Century
Books of Instruction and Information
education of children
Samuel G. Goodrich: biography and
information about sciences, history
Maria Edgeworth:
(Famous short story)
Magazine
UK
1852
Charm
US
The Juvenile Miscellany
St.Nicolas
The rise of legend folktale collections
Brothers Grimm: Children’s and Household Tales
Hans Christian Anderson: The Fairy Tales
Sir George Webbe Dasent: Popular Tales From the Norse
Joel Chandler Harris: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Saying
Fictions for Children
Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Chales Lutwidge Dodgson.
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer byMark Twain
Little Women by Luisa May Alcott
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrators of children’s literatures
George Cruikshank
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Sir John Tenniel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Randolph Caldecott
Hey Diddle Diddle
Baby Bunting
A Frog he would a Wooing Go
20th Century-the Present
began to flourish
Second Golden Age
focus on children themselves
Fantasy stories and realistic fiction have been popular
Winnie the Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne (U.K.)
early classic personified toy animal story.
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) by Laura
The hobbit (1937) by J.R.R Tolkien (U.K.)
The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint Exupery (France)
(1950) by C.S. Lewis (U.K.)
Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E. B. White (U.S.)
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L’Engle (U.S.)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1998) by J. K. Rowling (U.K.)
children's book awards
US
Newbery Medal 1922
Author
Caldecott Medal
1938
Ilustrator
UK
Carnegie Medal
1936
Author
Kate Greenaway Medal
1956
Ilustrator
Social movements
collapse of totalitarian regimes
increasing importance of education
youth culture
New Realism
books: sexuality, violence, drugs, war, and so on.
Civil Rights Movement
feminist movement
Political Correctness
study of children s literature
began in the last quarter of the 20 th century, which helped to raise
helped to raise the status of children's literature and promoted the publishing of children's books
