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2. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [1] 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 ...

3. The Little Engine That Could - Wikipedia

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   The Little Engine That Could is an American folktale (existing in the form of several illustrated children's books and films) that became widely known in the United States after publication in 1930 by Platt & Munk. The story is used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education ...

4. Lessons for Children - Wikipedia

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   Title page for an 1801 edition of Lessons for Children, part I Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Published in 1778 and 1779, the books initiated a revolution in children's literature in the Anglo-American world. For the first time, the needs of the child reader were ...

5. Harold and the Purple Crayon - Wikipedia

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   The book has been used frequently in children's and art education lesson plans, as well as referenced in other children's literature. [23] One of the protagonists in Captain Underpants , Harold Hutchins, is named after the protagonist in the book, with its author, Dav Pilkey , insisting on naming his main characters after his "childhood ...

6. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - Wikipedia

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   Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is a children's picture book published in 1987 by John Steptoe. The book won many awards for Steptoe's illustrations, and went on to be adapted into many different children's literature curricula. In the late 1980s, Weston Woods made a version of the book, narrated by Terry Alexander .

7. The Boxcar Children - Wikipedia

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   The Boxcar Children is a children's book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher [1] Gertrude Chandler Warner and currently published by Penguin Random House. It was previously published through Albert, Whitman and Company until 2023. Today, the series includes more than 160 titles, with more being ...