LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Struggle and Survival of the Children in
Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum

Selvamani. B., M. Phil. Scholar

According to the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society “Children’s literature comprises those texts that have been written specifically for children and those texts that children have selected to read on their own” (Susina 2008). Hunt 91999) says, the boundaries between children’s literature and adult literature are fluid.

Literature written specifically for an audience of children began to be published on a wide scale in the 17th century. In 1658, Jan Amos Comenius published the illustrated informational book Orbis Pictus in Bohemia. It is considered to be the first picture book published specially for children. Comenius stated that he wanted to attract the reader’s attention, “with pictures that amusingly teach the chief things of this world” (Literature for Children in Encyclopedia of children and childhood in History and Society 2008).

Children’s texts with limited circulation have been located from earlier periods of history. In order for a society to produce a substantial body of children’s literature it must recognize the existence of children as an important and distinctive category of readers with separate needs and interests.

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