The ways of reading into fairy tales, the types of telling, and why they have endured through the ages. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

History of Children's Literature

Types of Tales and Types of Telling

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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History of Children's Literature