ENG 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hornbook, The New England Primer, Pocketbook International
16 Jan 2017
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The concept of childhood, children"s literature is very much a cultural construct that continues to evolve. Comprises texts that have been written specifically for children and those texts that children have selected to read on their own, and the boundaries between children"s literature and adult literature are surprisingly fluid. Folk and fairy tales were not originally intended for children, they have become a staple of children"s literature since the early nineteenth century. It is the intended audience rather than the producers of the texts who define the field. More often, children"s books result from the collaboration or direct inspiration of a specific child or group of children with an adult author. Davies boys resulted in the play peter pan, or the boy who would not grow up (1904) and the novel peter and wendy (1911). The bedtime stories that a. a. milne told his son.
