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  2. List of children's classic books - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language.. Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children. In Europe, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press around 1440 made possi

  3. History of childhood - Wikipedia

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    History of childhood. The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood, published by French historian Philippe Ariès in 1960. He argued "childhood" as a concept was created by modern society. Ariès studied paintings, gravestones, furniture, and school records.

  4. List of British children's and young adults' literature ...

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    A Popular Schoolgirl (1920) The Railway Children (1906) The Railway Series (1945) The School at the Chalet (1925) The Secret Garden (1911) The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (1929) The Story of the Amulet (1906) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) Swallows and Amazons series.

  5. Category:20th-century British children's literature - Wikipedia

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    The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of British children's and young adults' authors (1900–1949) List of early-20th-century British children's literature illustrators. List of early-20th-century British children's magazines and annuals.

  6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    An early Mexican hornbook pictured in Tuer's History of the Horn-Book, 1896. During the seventeenth century, the concept of childhood began to emerge in Europe. Adults saw children as separate beings, innocent and in need of protection and training by the adults around them.

  7. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past.

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