This is a work of meticulous scholarship, detailed in content, succinct in style and format. Each chapter covers a particular time period and opens with section

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination

Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.

Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children’s literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialize

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its e