Children’s Literature

Available literature shows that before the nineteenth century, there were very few books were especially written for children. Since those days, a lot of changes in attitudes towards early childhood and children’s development, along with the increased technology, have led to the development of children’s literature as a major industry. It is therefore hard to define to define what children’s literature is. There is no simple, straightforward definition of children’s literature that can be used with equal validity at different times and in different contexts to describe children’s literature. The definitions of ‘children’s literature has changed over time just like the concepts of ‘child’, and ‘childhood.