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What is Children's Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature) about?

This critical guide provides a concise yet comprehensive history of British and. North 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.

Author

Grenby, M. O. (Matthew Orville), 1970-

Publisher

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281357540

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24