History of Children's Literature will take you back to the roots of story telling and examine the beginnings of children's literature.

Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

History of Children's Literature will take you back to the roots of story telling and examine the beginnings of children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Introduction: Once Upon a Time...

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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