Childrens

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age 12. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses that sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed at least several hundred years ago.

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Journey's End
Rebel Genius
When the Sea Turned to Silver
We Found A Hat
Foxheart
Impyrium
Gertie's Leap to Greatness
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White
StarChaser (TodHunter Moon, #3)
If the Magic Fits (100 Dresses, #1)
Cloud and Wallfish
Finding Perfect
If You Give a Mouse a Brownie
Cara's Kindness

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    Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about ...more
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    Charlotte Brontë
    No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?" "A pit full of fire." "And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.
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