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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622740'); This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British andNorth American children's literature from its seventeenth-century origins to the present day. Each chapter focuses on one of the main genres of children's literature: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, the school story, and poetry. M. O. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over three hundred years as well as asking why most children's books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories. Why, for instance, has fantasy been so appealing to both Victorian and twenty-first-century children? Are the religious and moral stories written in the eighteenth century really so different from the teenage problem novels of today? The book answers questions like these with a combination of detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of children's books, both famous and forgotten. Key Features The first concise history of children's literature to be published for more than a decade Extensive coverage of children's literature, across genres, continents and from the beginnings

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Author

Matthew O Grenby

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748622740

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24