The genre of children’s literature has been established and reshaped over the past few centuries, beginning with stories which were primarily didactic in nature, preaching a certain moral standard through characters’ good deeds and wrongdoings. Overtime, elements of fantasy, absurdism, silliness, and realism became more prominent in the genre, and the underlying intents and themes moved away from solely ethics and morality and toward adventure, imagination, transformation, and individuality. Highlighted below are a myriad of children’s literature selections written by the following American authors: George P. Webster (& Washington Irving), Jacob Abbott, Horatio Alger, Martha Finley, Clement Clarke Moore, Boy Scouts of America, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Sidney, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Louisa May Alcott.
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