Literatura infantil más allá de los clásicos

Abstract

Abstract:Children's and youth literature has become a literary genre of great interest in the last years. Although his birth was long ago, it is not until the twentieth century that begins to have greater notoriety worldwide. In its early days this type of literature was intended solely for the pedagogy and education of those classes more privileged, with the passage of time this reality was changing significantly significant; and with the appearance of the printing press it began to have a forceful change. The themes of this literary genre have also evolved, ceasing to be just a means to learn letters and history, to be a way of entering other worlds, hand in hand with imagination, fantasy, recreation and illustration; heavily used items today and all over the planet. This research takes a tour of the evolution that children's and youth literature has experienced, highlighting the most important of each era and highlighting the most prominent figures of this genre in Ecuador.