林詩珊的筆記: 兒童文學 Week 2

Children literature ：Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.

Children's literature can be divided into a number of categories, but it is most easily categorized according to genre or the intended age of the reader.

Genre	Definition	Example
Picture book	A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others.	Peter Rabbit
Fairytale	A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term mostly relates to children's literature.	The History of Tom Thumb
Fables	Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features (animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature) that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.	Aesop’s fables
Nursery rhyme	A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.	Mother Goose Rhymes
Fantasy/ Adventure	Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction.	The violet fairy book
Realistic Fiction	Realistic fiction typically involves a story whose basic setting is real and whose events could feasibly happen in that real-world setting	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer