Foreign children's writers for preschoolers. Children's literature

Modern children and teenagers have access to the most wide circle translated literature. Peculiar culture, features national character peoples, social realities and types of creative approach to life that transforms reality into unique art paintings- all this can be discovered by a child reading a book translated from another language. The scope and boundaries of reality are expanding, the world appears more diverse, rich, mysterious and attractive.
Proper place in children's reading devoted to legends and myths of various times and peoples. Especially great importance has an ancient Greek, Olympian mythological cycle. For younger and middle children school age The legends about the exploits of Hercules and the Argonauts contain a lot of interesting and instructive things. Older people are attracted by the severity of conflict situations, confrontation contradictory characters and titanic passions, retellings of the Illiad and Odyssey. In the legends and myths of Ancient Greece, young readers first encounter the system symbolic images, who have become household names of heroes who are included in the permanent collection of world culture. Without prior acquaintance with the “primary sources” of ancient imagery, many works of Russian and foreign literature that appeal to the immortal colors and images of ancient Greek art may subsequently prove difficult to perceive.
English and English-language American literature in children's and youth reading belongs to the most important place. Russian children have access to works of British folklore, songs, ballads, and fairy tales in translations and retellings. The richest library of English fiction for children there are also numerous high-quality translations into Russian. Books and heroes by D. Defoe, D. Swift, W. Scott, R.L. Stevenson, C. Dickens, A. Conan-Doyle, L. Carroll, A.A. Milne, O. Wilde and many others with early childhood accompany our children along with national literary works.
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731). The name Defoe became known throughout the world thanks to the hero of his work, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is rightfully considered one of the creators of the English realistic novel. Thanks to this, the story he told caused numerous imitations in his time. The title of his work is very long and bizarre. The novel usually comes to Russian children in an adapted form under an abbreviated title. Especially famous is “Robinson Crusoe” in the retelling of K.I. Chukovsky. This novel is without a doubt one of the favorite works for numerous generations of young readers. The indescribable aroma of distant travels, the romance of adventure, discovery, creative work, persistent defense of one’s human face Among the vicissitudes of fate - the basis of the educational and artistic power of the book, all this continues to attract more and more readers to Defoe's hero.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) did not count on a child reader when creating his satirical novel"Travels to Various Distant Countries of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships." The addressee of his books is the common people of England, who with humor and mocking sarcasm perceive dirty political intrigues, the arrogance of aristocrats, and the futility of scientific disputes that are far from life. Children's reading in a modified, adapted form includes the first two stories, telling about Gulliver's adventures in the land of Lilliputians and the land of giants. In children's editions of Gulliver's travels, the main interest is focused on the adventure side of the plot, the unusual situations in which the hero finds himself. If Defoe is able to captivate the young imagination with the unusualness of the life-like, then the beauty of Swift’s book lies in the ability to turn the most bizarre into a reason for thinking about the eternal moral values on which the world is based.
Among the numerous English-language works of the historical adventure genre, a special place belongs to the novels of Walter Scott (1771 - 1832). The novel “Ivanhoe,” which tells the story of the valiant knight of the glorious king Richard the Lionheart, was especially popular in our time.
The works of the Englishman Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883), who traveled all over Europe and America, leading a wanderer’s life full of adventures and trials, and his older contemporary, the first great US novelist James Fenimore, were also dedicated to exotic countries and peoples, written somewhat later and included in children’s reading. Cooper (1789-1851). The plots of Mayne Reid's novels "The Headless Horseman", his most popular work among middle school children, and Cooper's "Pathfinder, or on the Shores of Ontario", one of the writer's many works telling about colonization and conquest by Europeans, are connected with American realities. North America. Cooper and Mayne Reid's favorite heroes are brave, frank, and profess a cult of noble and calm strength. Their life is full of surprises, numerous enemies do not stop intrigues, intrigues, more and more new dangers and trials await the characters after the ones they have just overcome. The fascination of the plot, the mystery of the conflicts, and the unpredictability of the outcome maintain interest throughout the reading and are a sure guarantee of success for the teenage reader.
Among adventure books English writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), the best is the novel “Treasure Island”. His main and, in fact, only positive hero— teenager Jim. It is his view of the world, where passions rage, ambitions fight, fate and circumstances laugh at people, that allows us to revive the romance that is leaving the too pragmatic world.
Romantic adventure line in the development of English and English-language American literature on another historical stage was transformed in the deeply original work of R. Kipling, who told children about the exotic and wonderful world Indian jungle, D. London, who introduced gold miners, travelers, adventurers of the world corroded by contradictions at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.
With realistic image ordinary life, where passions also run high, people must make choices, and goodness does not always easily find its way to people’s hearts, as G. Beecher Stowe introduces in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” This book, in life-like pictures, revealed to its fellow citizens the whole horror of the existence of black slaves.
A significant part of the work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known under the pseudonym Mark Twain (1835-1910), is distinguished by its initial focus on children's perception. The writer himself called “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” a hymn to childhood. The actual adventure motif in Twain’s work is presented quite realistically, and the adventures of Tom and Huckleberry Finn do not go beyond the realm of the entirely possible in the conditions in which they lived. The true merit of Twain’s work is that he was able to fill conflicts with moral and psychological content, reliably show everyday realities, social types of its time. And all this is colored by the perception of a living boy, well versed in the motives and passions of people, a sincere dreamer, poet and bully, who knows how to make friends, love, and fight. The cheerfulness of Tom and his friends always preserves hope, gives joy, affirms the light. Subsequent works of M. Twain’s “children’s cycle”, “The Prince and the Pauper”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, become more and more perfect and complex in plot, composition and stylistics.
The funny little bear Winnie the Pooh, his owner, the boy Christopher Robin and all, all, all the characters in the book have become quite comfortable among Russian children. American writer Alana Alexander Milne (1882-1956). His work was translated into Russian by B. Zakhoder in 1960 and since then has firmly established itself among the books most beloved by preschoolers and primary schoolchildren.
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Latwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) creates a strange, seemingly deformed world in his fairy tales. He was not a professional writer and initially composed his stories about “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” orally for specific children. A mathematics professor by profession, Carroll also in literature strives to prove the abstractness of much in the world, the relativity of the great and the small, and to emphasize the juxtaposition of the terrible and the funny.
IN last years The greatest attention of publishers in our country was attracted by the trilogy of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) “The Lord of the Rings” (“The Watchmen”, “The Two Towers”, “The Return of the Sovereign”). He tried in his own way to continue the Carroll tradition. This was facilitated by studies in mathematical linguistics and the birth of heroes in direct communication with children. Tolkien’s book, written quite a long time ago and already half-forgotten, was remembered and revived also because the genre of so-called “fantasy” gained enormous commercial popularity; Tolkien’s plots became the basis for corresponding bright, technically sophisticated visual films, appealing to even less complex, although violently manifested human emotions than the literary source.
French children's literature is widely represented in translations into Russian.
And this acquaintance begins for most of our little readers with the fairy tales of Charles Perrault (1628-1703).
He wrote the fairy tales “Sleeping Beauty”, “Cinderella”, “Bluebeard”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Puss in Boots”, “Tom Thumb”. Hard work, generosity, resourcefulness of representatives common people Perrault tried to establish the values of his circle. The poeticization of these qualities makes his fairy tales important for the modern child.
The books of Jules Verne (1828-1905) firmly retain their place in children's reading. The success of his novel Five Weeks hot-air balloon"(1863) exceeded all expectations. And therefore, the aerial fantasy is replaced by a geological one - “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864), followed by the publication of the novel “The Journey and Adventures of Captain Hatteras” (1864-1865), “From the Earth to the Moon” (1865). Upon completion of the novel “The Children of Captain Grant,” the writer combined the previously written and all subsequent works into a common series called “Extraordinary Journeys.” The main advantage of his books is associated with the created characters of people striving to learn all the secrets of the earth, to overcome evil and social illnesses. This aspect has become especially important for the writer since the creation of the famous novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” The image of Captain Nemo was originally conceived as the character of a rebel, a Protestant, a fighter against injustice, tyranny and oppression. Of the other novels included in “Extraordinary Journeys” and which are popular to this day, it should be noted “Around the World in 80 Days” (1872), “The Mysterious Island” (1874). New for its time in Verne’s works was also the affirmation of the idea of the absolute equality of people before the court of morality. This is the only thing that distinguishes people in his works different nationalities, social status: they are the best or worst sides one humanity.
Among French artists XX century, who wrote about children and for children, the most famous among us is Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exu-Péry (1900-1944), author of the fairy tale “ A little prince" The genre is a philosophical fairy tale. Its main character is an inhabitant of an asteroid planet who unexpectedly appears in front of a pilot who has suffered an accident in the sands of the Sahara. The pilot calls him the Little Prince. The fairy tale delights more and more generations of readers. Many phrases from it have become aphorisms.
For young readers in our country, German children's literature is associated primarily with the names of great storytellers: the Brothers Grimm, Hoffmann, Hauff.
Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) Grimm lived during the era of the birth and heyday of romanticism, as an important trend in world culture at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Most of the fairy tales were collected by the brothers Grimm, professors of philology, during their numerous expeditions throughout rural Germany, recorded from the words of storytellers, peasants, and townspeople. In the form processed by the Brothers Grimm, they have become an important part of children's reading in many countries around the world. These are fairy tales" Brave Little Tailor", "A Pot of Porridge", "Granny Snowstorm", "Brother and Sister", "Smart Elsa". Simplicity, transparency of plot action and depth of moral and ethical content are perhaps the main distinguishing features of Grimm's fairy tales. Their “Bremen Town Musicians” continue their journey through times and countries.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) was also influenced by romanticism. The discord between dreams and reality is not only a sign of a romantic worldview, they also characterized state of mind Hoffmann himself, who led a boring life as an official, but dreamed of traveling and freely serving beauty and fantasy. These contradictions were also reflected in his fairy tales: “ Sandman", "The Nutcracker", "Someone else's Child", "The Golden Pot", "Little Tsakhes, nicknamed Zinnober". The Nutcracker is the most firmly established in children's reading. This is one of the most life-affirming and funny tales Hoffman, although the heroes of this Christmas story have to go through a long series of difficult trials before they find happiness.
Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) tried to build on fairy-tale traditions various peoples create a completely special type literary fairy tale, fantastic-allegorical short stories, united in cycles. His tales: “Little Muk”, “Caliph Stork”, “Dwarf Nose”. Fairy tale "Dwarf Nose" for children younger age is interesting for its mysterious and fantastic story of the transformation of the boy Jacob into a squirrel, an ugly hunchback, and his return to normal human appearance. Affects the feelings of a child and a touch of eerie “bloody” romance associated with the actions of an evil sorceress.
The best tale of the third volume, “Frozen,” illustrates everything significant that this early-dead writer enriched the genre with. Everyday storytelling is organically combined with a magical element. The hero goes through a difficult path of moral search, loss and gain. The classically simple and traditional idea of the fairy tale is to affirm goodness, justice, and generosity, embodied in the image of the Glass Man, as opposed to the cruelty, greed, and heartlessness of Michel the Giant and his henchmen.

The original role in the array of children's literature of various nations translated into Russian belongs to Italian writers.
The hero of the novel Spartacus by Raffaello Giovagnoli (1883-1915) brings with him the spirit of heroism. Being a professional historian, the writer managed to create memorable portraits of real historical figures - Sulla, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Crassus; the work plastically reconstructs the atmosphere of life in Ancient Rome that fascinates people of our time.
The Italian writer Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini, 1826-1890) renders great services to the young readers of our country. After all, it was his book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” that inspired A. Tolstoy to create the fairy-tale story “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio.”

Several interesting children's writers came from Northern European countries and Scandinavia, where an original tradition of creativity for children and about children has developed.
First of all, of course, we should name the great Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). He, like no one else, managed in his own way to embody the folklore-Pushkin principle in his work - “a fairy tale is a lie - but there is a hint in it, good fellows lesson". The moral-philosophical and social-didactic principles in his fairy tales grow through plots and conflicts that are absolutely accessible to children.
Andersen's fairy tales retain their charm for people even after they leave childhood. They attract unobtrusively, folk origin wisdom, versatility of embodied emotions. Almost never does Andersen's work come down to the embodiment of a single all-consuming feeling. His fairy-tale works are painted in the tones of life, where joy, sadness, lyrical sadness, laughter of different shades, from cheerful to sarcastic, disappointment, hope replace each other, coexist, conveying the bittersweet taste of true existence.
The writer's sympathies are always on the side of simple people, with noble hearts and pure impulses. This is how the narrator appears in fairy tales. He is in no hurry to show emotions, is in no hurry to make judgments, but behind the outwardly calm narrative one can feel the unshakable firmness of moral principles, which nothing can force either the beloved characters or the narrator to abandon.
Some of his tales contained indirect assessments of specific contradictions of the era (“The Princess and the Pea,” “The King’s New Clothes,” “The Swineherd”). But over time, their actual political significance faded away, while the moral and ethical potential did not become less: “The gilding will all be erased - the pigskin remains.” The heroes of his fairy tales are not only “revived” toys (“Stable tin soldier", "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep"), humanized animals ("The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina"), plants ("Chamomile", "Spruce"), but also the most ordinary household items: a darning needle, a bottle fragment, a collar, an old Street light, drop of water, matches, an old house. Having defended the right to life and love in serious trials, the storyteller’s favorite heroes turn out to be especially happy (“ The Snow Queen", "Thumbelina", "Wild Swans").
Original reasons prompted Selma Ottilie Lagerlöf (1858-1940) to create the book “The Wonderful Journey of Nils Holgerson with wild geese in Sweden." She received an order for a children's book about Sweden, but unexpectedly she fairy tale plot, characters emerged that were interesting and without connection with the historical, ethnographic, regional studies aspect of the book.
Fascinating art worlds and memorable characters were also created by Tove Janson in books about life in Troll Valley, Astrid Lindgren in the fairy tale “Pippi Longstocking”, in the trilogy about the Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof.

As children, we all read mainly children's books by domestic writers. However, there is a huge amount famous literature for children from foreign authors. However, such books differ in that they different countries Oh, your traditions and your favorite main characters, who are unusual and curious for the children of our country.

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There were fairy tales in the lives of each of us. After fascinating story about the adventures of different animals, children and adults, about their travels to distant countries, one can sleep much more sweetly and soundly. It is from this moment that we begin to love books, study pictures, learn to read.

Foreign children's literature is intended for of different ages. Books for little ones contain bright and large illustrations. Literature for older children contains more scientific information, educational and educational.

Any book for children has a very deep meaning, which embeds in the child’s subconscious views about what good and evil are, how to choose friends, how to correctly understand the world and what life is in general. A child, coming into this world, begins to learn to live here, and books are excellent teachers in this difficult task.

Many writers from other countries create works that children in our country really like. Foreign children's literature is known by such authors as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, and Charles Perrault. This eternal stories about Pippi Long Stocking, Bremen Town Musicians, The Princess and the Pea. We all love these fairy tales and read them to our children. Moreover, in each story the main characters find themselves in amazing situations, find new friends, and meet enemies. The moral is always the same - good triumphs over evil. At the same time, negative characters are given a chance to reform. This the best way show children that the world is complicated, but at the same time you need to be a good person.

On our website you will find and be able to download free famous foreign children's books in different formats for reading on any electronic device. You can also read online. We have selected the ratings best books, which are most loved by readers from all over the world.

Despite the widespread computerization, parents continue to buy printed editions of books for their children. Of course, there is a greater demand for literature for very young children who cannot yet read. Older people prefer to download works on the Internet on their own and read them on their gadgets. But still the influence of literature on child development undeniable. Therefore, in this article we will look at what modern children's writers exist today. Review famous authors will allow you to understand what children and their parents are interested in.

The influence of literature on children's development

Let's start from the very beginning. Namely, we will understand how books influence the development of children. It should be noted that the stories that are read or told loving parents, their children take them completely seriously. Of course, this happens up to a certain point in time, but during this period the children’s system of perceiving the world is already somewhat formed. This all means that before you start reading a book by a new author to your child, you should read it yourself.

This required condition, because modern children's writers and their works are sometimes very innovative, and some fairy tales even show a system of values from the individual point of view of the writer. Writers who create such books believe that this will help children adapt to the current world and understand it. Of course, parents should decide how to raise their child, but literature must be carefully chosen from childhood in order to instill in the child a taste for good books.

How to choose a book for a child by age

If you want to instill in your child a love of reading, then you need to choose the right books according to age. Let's just say that it is too early for a two-year-old child to read Nosov's books, since they will be difficult for him to understand, but the fairy tales of Korney Chukovsky are quite suitable. You can also read short nursery rhymes to your child and then memorize them together. Also suitable for this age are such fairy tales as “Ryaba Hen”, “Teremok”, “Kolobok” (although you can turn to them even earlier).

As the child grows up, you should start reading to him such works as “Three from Prostokvashino”, “Baby and Carlson”, “The Adventure of Pinocchio”. Next, include “Cinderella”, “Snow White” and similar fairy tales in the list of books. They are the ones who will teach the child to worry and sympathize, to think about justice, about what is good and bad.

Modern children's writers and their works can also take up residence on your children's book shelf. Of course, they should be selected more carefully; unknown texts must first be read by the parent. But if you already have a fairly adult child, then it’s difficult to keep track of him. But try to offer him something that he has not yet read from the classics, perhaps he will like it.

Children's writers and time-tested books

So, let's look at the best time-tested children's writers and books for children's development. These include the following.

Poems by Agnia Barto. You can start reading them to your baby at the age of one, because she has both short and simple poems and longer and more serious ones.
Quite popular among kids and its famous works Almost every child knows “Moidodyr” or “Tsokotukha Fly”.
At an older age, children should read the works of the Brothers Grimm. These are, for example, “Blizzard”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Reasonable Hans”, “Rose Hood”.
Lindgren Astrid and her most famous works“Pippi Longstocking” and “Baby and Carlson”.
More complex, which means they need to be read when the child gets older. His most popular book is “The Malachite Box,” which contains many Ural tales. If your child is interested in folklore, then offer him this option.
Quite an interesting series of books about the adventures of the girl Ellie in the Magic Land.
Lewis Carroll writes no less fascinatingly. His most famous works are “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”.
The series of books “The Chronicles of Narnia” by Clive Lewis is very interesting, which opens up an amazing and magical world.

So, we looked at a very small list of children's books by author, but in fact it is much more extensive. Here you can add other works you know and love that you yourself read as a child. Your child will probably be interested in this.

Modern Russian fairy tale writers

Now let's look at a small list of modern children's writers (and their works), namely those who create fairy tales that are published in Russia.

Natalya Gorodetskaya. A very interesting modern storyteller who has already written many works. For example, she wrote the “Fairytale Kingdom” series. By reading these books, you can truly be transported to a completely different world.
Olga Kolpakova has already published more than a dozen books, including many interesting and instructive stories that your child will surely enjoy.
Sofia Prokofief is the author of many magical stories and fairy tales for both very young children and schoolchildren. Among them we can note such as “Astrel and the Guardian of the Forest”, “Snow White in the Enchanted Castle”, “In the Land of Legends”.
Valentina Oseeva. This writer has in her arsenal for children fairy tales, as well as short but instructive stories.

As you can see, many modern Russian children's writers and their works are quite popular, and can also have a positive impact on the development of your child, so that he becomes a harmonious person who knows what love and hate are, what is good and bad, where to stand for yourself, and where to support a loved one.

Contemporary foreign fairy tale writers

Not only modern Russian children's writers and their works can be present on your children's bookshelf, but also foreign ones. Of course, here you need to select much more strictly, because sometimes they offer you to read absolutely incredible things, but there are also quite fascinating ones. Let's look at the list.

Dick King-Smith. This English author is very popular for his fascinating stories about animals that can be reread by the whole family.
Sven Nordqvist. who created a series of books about Peson and his kitten Findus. This work has been translated into many languages, cartoons and a computer game have been created based on it.
Christina Nestlinger. This is an Austrian author who has published more than a hundred books during her career.

Of course, this is not the entire list, but just a few examples. Parents themselves must replenish it so that their child has the opportunity to read good books.

Famous children's authors who write poetry

On your child’s shelf, in addition to fairy tales, there should also be poetic works. This will significantly expand his horizons and also help develop his memory. Now let’s look at what modern children’s writers and books for children work in this style.

Andre Giles. This is a modern English children's poet who published the already world-famous book “The Dancing Giraffe”.
Marina Boroditskaya. She writes both poetry for adults and for children (of which there are many more). Here are some of the author’s poems - “The Last Day of Training”, “Forest Swamp”, “Chickenpox”, “Rybkin TV” and many others.
Galina Dyadina. Her most popular book- this is “The Book in the Vest”. It is a collection of poems, which are arranged in alphabetical order. This will help your child learn the alphabet and read interesting works.

Aspiring young authors

It is sometimes very difficult for a modern parent to choose literature for his child from such a variety of new, fashionable and, most often, even unknown authors. Therefore, below we will consider the best children's writers and books for the development of children, which are not yet entirely known, but have already received well-deserved praise from critics. In 2015, the Debut Prize was awarded to three authors who received a special prize “For best work for children and teenagers.” This is Dmitry Akhmetshin from the city of Samara. The award went to him for the story “The Adventures of Denis in the Painted World.” It should be noted that this author is quite young and has several other similar works.

Also on this list is Dmitry Buchelnikov from the city of Sochi, he was noted for his story “Majara”. This is also a young author, whose real name is Dmitry Kungurtsev. Although he has been writing children's fairy tales and poems since his youth, his work was previously only published in one magazine. But now he has received an award and recognition.

As we see, modern world is very concerned about the availability of good literature for the younger generation, which is why this year the Debut Prize was established new nomination- “For the best work for children and teenagers.” Thus, if you want to add to your list of children's books, compiled by author, and are looking for young talents who write good and interesting works, then you can take note of the works of the above writers.

Developmental literature (encyclopedias, anthologies, etc.)

At a certain stage of a child’s development, so that he learns more about the world around him and absorbs the necessary knowledge in . It’s the game that helps you practice movement techniques painlessly. Repeat them in, separate literature is required. These are various encyclopedias and the like. Now let's look at what modern children's writers and their works can help you with this.

A very interesting and talented author. Most often he creates educational literature that children really like. You can find various poems that will help your child learn the multiplication tables, as well as a number of tongue twisters, counting rhymes and many others.
Julia Donaldson. This author wrote a “Rhyming Story” that is quite interesting for little ones.

As your child grows older, you should purchase books such as large encyclopedias with colorful pictures. Again, here you just need to focus on the age of your child and the contents of the book itself.

Teen literature

Separately, it should be said about It is at this age that the child begins to read what he himself wants. Therefore, sometimes you should wonder what your child is so passionate about, since not all modern children's writers and their works are suitable even for a teenager. Some are better not to be included in the reading list at all. Let's look at a few authors who are considered the best.

Joanne Rowling. Perhaps this woman is one of the most popular in the world. It was she who wrote a series of books about the boy Harry Potter. Films have been made based on this work.
Offer your teenager classics - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", Jerome Sellinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", Ray Bradberry's "Dandelion Wine".
For those who love magic, there is a rather interesting series of books written by Dmitry Yemets. The two most popular are the parody “Tanya Grotter” and “Mefodiy Buslaev”.

And remember, at this age the child begins to experience adult feelings, as well as to comprehend what he wants in this life and what this world is. Therefore, you should be careful when choosing books, since many authors whose works claim to be teenage literature should be read at an older age, when the psyche and worldview have already been formed.

The most popular children's and teenage books

Now we should summarize and list the most popular modern children's writers and their works. Schoolchildren are often asked to write an essay on this topic, so let’s turn specifically to the rating of authors popular among children.

Max Fry and his series “Echo Labyrinths” and “Echo Chronicles”;
Dan Simmons - “Illion”, “Winter Ghosts”, etc.;
Arkady and (these authors are considered classics of Russian science fiction);
Diana Duane also writes fantasy;
Donald Bisset is a popular children's author.

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For parents

A little about reading foreign children's literature

(excerpts from the book “Children’s Literature” edited by E.O. Putilova were used)

Foreign children's literature is incredibly interesting reading. It introduces the little reader to another world, a way of life, national characteristics character, nature. For the Russian-speaking reader, it exists in magnificent translations and retellings, and we would lose a lot if these foreign works would not have reached us. Children's books by writers from different countries open up a wide panorama of world culture to a child and make him a citizen of the world.

Children's literature, like literature in general, belongs to the field of the art of words. This determines its aesthetic function. It is associated with a special kind of emotions that arise when reading literary works. Children are capable of experiencing aesthetic pleasure from what they read no less than an adult. The child happily immerses himself in the fantasy world of fairy tales and adventures, empathizes with the characters, feels the poetic rhythm, and enjoys sound and verbal play. Children understand humor and jokes well.

English children's literature is one of the richest and most interesting in the world. It may seem strange that in a country that is traditionally perceived by us as the homeland of reserved, polite and reasonable people who adhere to strict rules, mischievous and illogical literature was born. But perhaps it was precisely this English stiffness that gave birth, out of a sense of protest, to a literature that is cheerful and mischievous, in which the world is often turned inside out... literature of nonsense. The word “nonsense” in translation means “nonsense”, “lack of meaning”, but in the very senselessness of this nonsense lies certain meaning. After all, nonsense reveals all the inconsistencies of things around us and within us, thereby opening the path to true harmony.

There are books that are best read in time, when the seeds from what you read can fall on the fertile soil of childhood and play an important role in the development and formation of the child as an individual and as a person. For you, dear parents, we will list some English works to remind you of their existence, and ask you not to deprive yourself and your children of the pleasure of reading or re-reading them.

Alan Milne, "Winnie the Pooh and Everything"

Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book” (The Story of Mowgli), “Just So Fairy Tales” (Interesting stories-myths about animals)

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (The Exciting Adventures of Three Friends: Mole, Rat and Toad)

James Barrie, Peter Pan (A book about a boy who didn't want to grow up)

Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland" ( Funny fairy tale full of funny and witty jokes, word games, phraseological units)

A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all”

Alan Milne graduated from Cambridge University with the firm intention of becoming a writer. But we would hardly remember this writer now if not for his son Christopher Robin. It was for him that Milne began to write poetry, he told him funny stories, the heroes of which were little Christopher himself and his favorite toys - Winnie the Pooh bear, Eeyore and others. Milne's books reflected surprisingly truthfully inner world a child, his view of things, his problems, discoveries, games, sorrows and joys. Books appeared one after another over a short period of time that coincided with Christopher Robin's childhood: a collection of poems, When We Were Little, 1924; "Winnie the Pooh", 1926; collection of poems “Now we are already six”, 1927; “The House on Pooh Edge” (continuation of the story about Winnie the Pooh), 1928.

Milne's poems looked unusual compared to English children's poetry. At that time, books abounded mainly with fairies, and the attitude towards the child was condescending, as towards an unformed person mentally, and accordingly the poems were primitive. In Milne's poems, the world is seen through the eyes of a child (most of his poems are written in the first person), who is not at all a primitive creature or an “underdeveloped adult.”

For example, in the poem “Loneliness” the hero dreams of a home - an “enchanted place”, free from countless adult prohibitions. This house is his inner world, closed from others, the world of his dreams and secrets. In the poem “In the Dark,” the author shows how precious this world is for a child who is ready to fulfill all the demands of adults, just to get rid of them and finally “think about what you want to think about” and “laugh at what you want to laugh at.” " Jane in the poem "Good Little Girl" is annoyed by her parents' constant care and annoying question. She is offended that she is suspected of bad behavior everywhere, even at the zoo. It seems to the girl that her parents cannot wait for her to quickly ask if she behaved well. In the poem “Come with Me,” the hero tries to involve adults in his life, to show them all the wonderful things he has seen, but the adults brush him off because they are too busy (the poem was written 80 years ago!).

In fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh, the main character is not fictional, but real child with a special logic, a special world, special language. All this is interpreted by the author not in the form of a dry treatise, but in a fun literary game. Christopher Robin appears here as an ideal hero, since he is an only child, and all the other inhabitants of the forest are animated by his imagination and embody some of his traits. Having thus been freed from some of his character traits, Christopher Robin in this tale is the smartest, strongest and bravest inhabitant of his fictional world. And Winnie the Pooh embodies the creative energy of a child and has a different way of understanding things, different from the logical one. Both his poems (“noisemakers”, “grumblers”, etc.) and his behavior are based mainly on intuition.

In Milne's books, the child, playing roles and doing nothing, acquires his own “I”. Some of Pooh's songs are permeated with the feeling of how great it is to be Pooh. Feeling one and only is a child’s natural state, giving him comfort. That is why it is so difficult for him to understand another person who is not like him. Just as it is difficult for a child to understand how someone can be unhappy when he is happy, it is difficult for him to understand and predict the behavior of another person. So, the characters in the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh show different types children's characters and different traits. For example, children's fears are embodied in the book in such mythical creatures, like Heffalump, Yagular, Byaka and Buka. None of these characters actually exist, and no one like them appears in the forest. However, in Piglet's mind they are real, and when Piglet is next to Christopher Robin, he is not afraid of anything, like a child next to his parents.

In his Milne's tale presents an interesting speech portrait of a preschooler, shows how the child handles language, how he masters it, how he masters the world around him. The world that opens to a child is full of miracles, but what makes him even more wonderful is the opportunity to talk about these miracles. As Piglet said, what is the use of such amazing things as floods and floods if you have no one to even talk about them with.

Milne's Tale - Homemade literary game, fascinating for both adults and children. There is no negative pole in his books. The heroes have their shortcomings, but none can be called “negative” and evil does not invade the life of the forest. In the world of Winnie the Pooh, natural disasters occur, mythical fears appear, but all dangers are easily overcome thanks to friendship, optimism, ingenuity, and the kindness of the heroes. Milne leaves his heroes within the framework (so necessary for children) of a toy, home world, which gives children a sense of security.

And speaking about Milne’s book, we cannot fail to mention the one who taught the English teddy bear Winnie the Pooh to speak Russian. This is a wonderful writer, storyteller and translator, Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder. It was he who introduced Russian children to the heroes of famous English fairy tales(“Alice in Wonderland”, “Mary Poppins”, “Peter Pan” and others) and wrote many funny poems, wonderful children’s plays, one of which was based on an opera (“Lopushok at Lukomorye”), and fairy tales. More than a dozen films have been shot based on his scripts, including cartoons, the main one, of course, being the cartoon about Winnie the Pooh.