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Historical dictionary of children's literature /

O'Sullivan, Emer

Historical dictionary of children's literature / Emer O'Sullivan. - Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010 - 1 online resource (xxix, 341 pages) - Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts no. 46 .

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Article Abstract: Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literatur.

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Children's literature - History and criticism - Dictionaries
Children's literature - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries
TRAVEL - Special Interest - Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM - General
CHILDRENS LITERATURE

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