Children's books literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scientific standpoints with the influences of Charles Darwin and John Locke.
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27 Facts About Children's books
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One writer on children's literature defines it as "all books written for children, excluding works such as comic books, joke books, cartoon books, and non-fiction works that are not intended to be read from front to back, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials".
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Children's books explains that children were in the past not considered as greatly different from adults and were not given significantly different treatment.
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ChapChildren's books, pocket-sized pamphlets that were often folded instead of being stitched, were published in Britain; illustrated by woodblock printing, these inexpensive booklets reprinted popular ballads, historical re-tellings, and folk tales.
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Children's books became Germany's "outstanding and most modern" writer for children.
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One other noteworthy publication was Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer, which was one of the first "boy Children's books", intended for children but enjoyed by both children and adults alike.
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Golden Age of Children's Literature ended with World War I The period before World War II was much slower in children's publishing.
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Children's mass paperback books were first released in England in 1940 under the Puffin Books imprint, and their lower prices helped make book buying possible for children during World War II.
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Enid Blyton's Children's books have been among the world's bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
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Blyton's Children's books are still enormously popular and have been translated into almost 90 languages.
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Children's books's wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, and The Adventure Series.
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Children's books literature has been a part of American culture since Europeans first settled in America.
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The earliest Children's books were used as tools to instill self-control in children and preach a life of morality in Puritan society.
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Children's books's was followed by May Massee in 1922, and Alice Dalgliesh in 1934.
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Already vigorous growth in children's books became a boom in the 1950s, and children's publishing became big business.
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Laura Numeroff published If You Give a Mouse a Cookie in 1985 and went on to create a series of similarly named Children's books that is still popular for children and adults to read together.
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Children's books non-fiction gained great importance in Russia at the beginning of the century.
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Children's books magazines flourished, and by the end of the century there were 61.
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Children's books wrote biographies of many historical personalities, such as Kapila Deva.
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Children's books's award-winning work, Good Stories for Good Children, is a collection of stories derived from the stories in Classical Persian literature re-written for children.
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Children's picture books often serve as an accessible source of high quality art for young children.
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Children's books's says that capitalism encourages gender-specific marketing of books and toys.
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Children's books's argues girls have traditionally been marketed books that prepare them for domestic jobs and motherhood.
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Some question if certain Children's books should be banned, while others believe original content should remain, but publishers should add information to guide parents in conversations with their children about the problematic elements of the particular story.
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Some Children's books have been altered in newer editions and significant changes can be seen, such as illustrator Richard Scarry's book Best Word Book Ever.
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Children's books's asserts racist attitudes are assimilated using interactions children have with books as an example of how children internalize what they encounter in real life.
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