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Children's literature is literature written for and/or marketed towards a primarily juvenile audience. While some books are authored for a youthful audience, others become associated with children through marketing or tradition. Still others are "crossover" books, read by children and adults alike. Literature addressed directly to children arose in Western Europe in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, becoming a very profitable industry in the 19th century. It includes picture books, fairy tales, animal stories, school stories, science fiction, fantasy, series fiction, chapter books, children's poetry, and other genres. Throughout its 300-year history, children's stories have reflected the values of the societies that produced them.
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Little Black Sambo (1899), illustrated by Helen Bannerman, uses racial stereotypes to depict the Indian hero.
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- July – Carnegie Medal awarded to the best children's book published in the United Kingdom
- July 2000 – A children's literature section is created on The New York Times bestseller list as a result of the popularity of Harry Potter
- 6 July 1942 – Anne Frank, whose diary became a popular children's work, went into hiding
- 9 July 1713 – Baptism of John Newbery (work pictured), the first publisher to make children's literature in Britain successful
- 14 July 1890 – Death of Dhan Gopal Mukerji, whose book Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon won the Newbery Medal in 1928
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- ...that the bestselling children's book The History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood inspired the character of Pip in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations?
- ...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?
- ...that the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?
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