# Children's Literature

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Category: Literature
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:31.881Z
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## Summary

Books written for children, illustrated for children, published for children, and read by children — sometimes also by their parents, and often, decades later, by the children's children. Key sections include: Children's Literature.; Opening What this is.; Chapter I The invention of childhood.; Chapter II John Newbery.; Chapter III The Brothers Grimm.; Chapter IV Hans Christian Andersen.; Chapter V Alice.; Chapter VI Beatrix Potter.; Chapter VII The Wind in the Willows.; Chapter VIII Frances Hodgson Burnett..

## Slide Outline

1. Children's Literature.
2. Opening What this is.
3. Chapter I The invention of childhood.
4. Chapter II John Newbery.
5. Chapter III The Brothers Grimm.
6. Chapter IV Hans Christian Andersen.
7. Chapter V Alice.
8. Chapter VI Beatrix Potter.
9. Chapter VII The Wind in the Willows.
10. Chapter VIII Frances Hodgson Burnett.
11. Chapter IX A. A. Milne.
12. Chapter X The American Golden Age.
13. Chapter XI Dr. Seuss.
14. Chapter XII E. B. White.
15. Chapter XIII Maurice Sendak.
16. Chapter XIV Roald Dahl.
17. Chapter XV Narnia.
18. Chapter XVI Tolkien.
19. Chapter XVII Le Guin.
20. Chapter XVIII Judy Blume.
21. Chapter XIX The Newbery.
22. Chapter XX The Caldecott.
23. Chapter XXI The fantasists.
24. Chapter XXII Pullman.
25. Chapter XXIII Harry Potter.
26. Chapter XXIV The 2010s YA.
27. Chapter XXV The picture book.
28. Chapter XXVI The age ladder.
29. Chapter XXVII Whose stories.
30. Chapter XXVIII Thirty essential works.
31. Chapter XXIX Watch & read.
32. The end of the deck.

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