Now fully revised and updated, this new edition includes:
. a new chapter on illustrated and picture books (and includes 7 illustrations);
. an expanded glossary;
. an updated further reading section.
Children's Literature traces the development of the main genres of children's books one by one, including fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories, children's poetry and illustrated and picture books. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over 300 years and asks why most children's books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of...