Children's 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.
There are six categories of children's literature :
Picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.
Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902.
Fairy tale
Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition and mostly relates to children's literature.
Fable
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 includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop.
Many familiar fables of Aesop for example "The Crow and the Pitcher", "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Lion and the Mouse".
was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Nursery rhyme
traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. In North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-18th century, is still often used.
Fantasy
fiction genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.
J. K. Rowling is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.
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