Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and ...

Children's Laureate is a position initially awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator ... 2013 every two years the Dutch Reading Foundation appoints a well-known children's books author as an ambassador for children's literature. Since 2017, this ‘Kinderboekenambassadeur’ has a seat in his special ...

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row.The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1975 (with an updated version in 1988); a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation.The book had sold over 19 million …

History. Spanish language literature began in the Cuban territory with the Spanish conquest and colonization.The conquistadors brought with them cronistas who recorded and described all important events, although they did so with the Spanish point of view and for the Spanish reading public. The most important cronista to arrive in Cuba in the 16th century was Bartolomé de las …

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.. The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays.

International companion encyclopedia of children's literature. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780203168127. Lundin, Anne (2004). Constructing the canon of children's literature : beyond library walls and ivory towers. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-8153-3841-4. A scholarly examination of canons of children's literature. Silvey, Anita, ed. (1995).

Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running BBC Television science fiction series Doctor Who and two of its spin-offs.Sarah Jane is a dogged investigative journalist who first encounters alien time traveller The Doctor while trying to break a story on a top secret research facility, and subsequently becomes his travelling companion on …

Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of …

Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" (published in New Worlds …

In 2004, the geologist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes summarized a study of the scientific literature on climate change. She analyzed 928 abstracts of papers from refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 and concluded that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change.