What are some of the 'classics' of US children's literature?

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That's an interesting question - and it depends on what you mean by"children's literature". Children's Lit has undergone a number of massive stylistic changes in the last 40 years. read more

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 possible mass production of books, though the first printed books were quite expensive and remained so for a long time. read more

Also some major examples of classic literature that make everyone else's list did not make mine because they are not my cup of tea. I've tried to like F. Scott Fitzgerald but we just never got on. On the Road goes off the road for me. read more

That's an interesting question - and it depends on what you mean by "children's literature". Children's Lit has undergone a number of massive stylistic changes in the last 40 years. read more