Literature for Children - Comprehension

Children's literature or juvenile 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 children's literature can be traced to stories and songs part of a wider oral tradition that adults shared with children before publishing existed the development of early children's literature before printing was invented is difficult to trace even after printing became widespread many classic children's tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience since the 15th century a large quantity of literature often with a moral or religious message has been aimed specifically at children the late 19th and early 20th centuries became known as the Golden Age of children's literature as this period included the publication of many books acknowledged today as classics.

Children's literature provides children with information and a better understanding of life itself. Children's books, children's literature, are books that place the child's point of view at the center of the story and at the same time offer a significant truth that is expressed in appropriate elements and impressive language. Genre can be understood as a kind or type of literature that has a common set of characteristics, or categories of grouping of literary works which are usually based on style, form, or content. This has the consequence of understanding that in a literary genre there are a number of elements that have similar characteristics, and these elements show differences with elements in other genres. Although he admits that there are often overlaps, Lukens classifies genres of children's literature into six kinds, namely realism, formula fiction, fantasy, traditional literature, poetry, and non-fiction with each of them having several more types

Drama genre is intentionally not included because according to him, drama only complete after being shown and watched, and not merely a matter of literary language. The proposed genre of children's literature is quite divided into fiction, non-fiction, poetry, as well as picture books and comics with each subgenre. The basis for the division is the form of disclosure and the content disclosed. As Lukens and with the same argument, the drama genre is temporarily not included in this genre division. Judging from the time of its emergence, genres of fiction and poetry can be divided into fiction and traditional poetry and modern fiction and poetry.