Children's literature extremely important in raising a child. It is worth paying a lot of attention to reading, as it greatly influences the baby’s character. Books allow a child to enrich his lexicon, explore the world and learn to solve possible life issues. brings you a list of the best children's authors.

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Astrid Lindgren

It's hard to imagine your childhood without Baby with Carlson and Pippi Longstocking. In addition to the fairy tales you already know, there are also such as “Emil of Lenneberga” - about a little tomboy who fed a pig drunken cherries and set fire to all the firecrackers in the burgomaster’s garden. Lindgren was great at writing captivating stories. When they asked her how she managed to guess children’s desires so accurately, she answered that she writes in such a way that it would be interesting for her to read.

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Janusz Korczak

A successful doctor, teacher and writer, he founded an orphanage for Jewish orphans in Poland and developed the basic principles of raising children. His book "King Matt the First" at one time it amazed many children and parents - it tells about a little boy who suddenly began to lead an entire state. Of the pedagogical works, the most famous book- “How to love a child.”

Charles Perrault

It is impossible to introduce a child to literature without reading "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood". It’s as if these fairy tales are written into our DNA; we remember them by heart and retell them to our children. Perrault is considered the founder of the genre of fairy tales for children, although he himself was shy and initially published the collection “Tales of Mother Goose” under a pseudonym, taking the name of his son.

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Lewis Carroll

The English writer Lewis Carroll loved children very much. His pen belongs famous works for children, in which adults find many allusions and veiled meanings. These are fairy tales " ", "Alice in the Wonderland", a humorous poem, "The Hunting of the Snark."

Hans Christian Andersen

The famous storyteller wrote children's stories, skillfully incorporating into them elements of comedy and satire, social criticism and philosophy, addressed primarily to adults. Andersen is the author of numerous fairy tales, which continue to be filmed to this day. In his fairy tales, good always defeats evil, the main characters are endowed with intelligence, kindness, and courage. But there are also sad tales like "Matchstick Girls" and "The Little Mermaids" that will show the child that the world not ideal.

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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Milne became famous for his teddy bear books Winnie the Pooh and various poems for children. For more than 70 years, readers all over the world have known the character with sawdust in his head, who nevertheless possesses worldly wisdom and sincere kindness. For many children, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Eeyore and the rest of the heroes of Milne's fairy tale have become good friends. Like the characters of Lindgren, who began to write stories for her daughter, and Andersen, who amuses the children he knew, Winnie was created for one child - the son of a writer named Christopher Robin.

Korney Chukovsky

“Fedorino grief”, “Moidodyr”, “Aibolit”, “Tsokotukha fly”, “Telephone”, “Cockroach”- poems that do not lose meaning to this day and teach good deeds. Emotional, rhythmic, they are so easy to remember that many adults remember them to this day. In addition, Chukovsky translated fairy tales from other countries and recorded his observations of children, which were reflected in the book “From Two to Five.”

Art created for children is a diverse and extensive part of modern culture.

Literature has been present in our lives since childhood, it is with its help that the concept of good and evil is laid down, the worldview and ideals are formed.

Even in preschool and junior school age Young readers can already appreciate the dynamics of poetry or beautiful fairy tales, and at an older age they begin to read thoughtfully, so books need to be selected accordingly.

Let's talk about Russian and foreign children's writers and their works.

Children's writers of the 19th-20th centuries and the development of children's literature

For the first time, books specifically for children in Rus' began to be written in the 17th century; in the 18th century, the formation of children's literature began: at that time such people as M. Lomonosov, N. Karamzin, A. Sumarokov and others lived and worked. The 19th century is the heyday of children's literature, " silver Age“, and we read many books by writers of that time to this day.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

The writer's real name is Charles Dodgson, he grew up in a large family: Charles had 3 brothers and 7 sisters. He studied at college, became a professor of mathematics, and even received the rank of deacon. He really wanted to become an artist, he drew a lot, and loved to take photographs. As a boy, he composed stories, funny stories, and loved the theater.

If his friends had not persuaded Charles to rewrite his story on paper, Alice in Wonderland might not have seen the light of day, but still the book was published in 1865.

Carroll's books are written in such an original and rich language that it is difficult to find a suitable translation for some words: there are more than 10 versions of the translation of his works into Russian, and it is up to the readers to choose which one to prefer.

Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002)

Astrid Eriksson (married Lindgren) grew up in a farmer's family, her childhood was spent in games, adventures and work on the farm. As soon as Astrid learned to read and write, she began to write various stories and first poems.

Astrid wrote the story “Pippi Longstocking” for her daughter when she was sick. Later, the stories “Mio, my Mio”, “Roni, the Robber’s Daughter”, a trilogy about detective Callie Blumkvist, a favorite triology of many, which tells the story of the cheerful and restless Carlson, were published.

Astrid's works are staged in many children's theaters around the world, and her books are adored by people of all ages.

In 2002 it was approved literary prize in honor of Astrid Lindgren - she is awarded for her contribution to the development of literature for children.

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)

This is a Swedish writer, the first woman to receive Nobel Prize on literature.

Selma was reluctant to remember her childhood: at the age of 3, the girl was paralyzed, she did not get out of bed, and her only consolation was fairy tales and stories told by her grandmother. At the age of 9, after treatment, the ability to move returned in Selma, and she began to dream of a career as a writer. She studied hard, received a doctorate, and became a member of the Swedish Academy.

In 1906, her book about the journey of little Nils on the back of Martin the goose was published, then the writer published the collection “Trolls and People,” which included fantastic legends, fairy tales and short stories, and she also wrote many novels for adults.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)

This English writer cannot be called exclusively for children, since adults also read his books with delight.

When he was three years old, his mother, widowed at an early age, moved her two children to England. The boy was fond of painting, foreign languages ​​were easy for him, he even became interested in studying “dead” languages: Anglo-Saxon, Gothic and others.

During the war, Tolkien, who went there as a volunteer, contracted typhus: it was in his delirium that he came up with the “Elvish language” that became business card many of his heroes.

His works are immortal, they are extremely popular in our time.

Clive Lewis (1898-1963)

Irish and English writer, theologian and scientist. Clive Lewis and John Tolkien were friends, it was Lewis who was one of the first to hear about the world of Middle-earth, and Tolkien - about the beautiful Narnia.

Clive was born in Ireland but lived most of his life in England. He released his first works under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.

Clive Lewis traveled a lot, wrote poetry, loved to discuss various topics and was a well-rounded person.

His works are loved by adults and children to this day.

Russian children's writers

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969)

Real name - Nikolai Korneychukov is known for children's fairy tales and stories in verse and prose.

He was born in St. Petersburg, lived for a long time in Nikolaev, Odessa, from childhood he firmly decided to become a writer, but when he arrived in St. Petersburg, he was faced with refusals from magazine editors.

He became a member of a literary circle, a critic, and wrote poetry and stories.

He was even arrested for his bold statements. During the war, Chukovsky was a war correspondent, editor of almanacs and magazines.

He owned foreign languages and translated works of foreign authors.

Most famous works Chukovsky is “Cockroach”, “Fly Tsokotukha”, “Barmaley”, “Aibolit”, “Miracle Tree”, “Moidodyr” and others.

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964)

Playwright, poet, translator, literary critic, talented author. It was in his translation that many first read Shakespeare's sonnets, Burns's poems, fairy tales different nations peace.

Samuel's talent began to manifest itself in early childhood: the boy wrote poetry and had a talent for foreign languages.

The poetry books of Marshak, who moved from Voronezh to Petrograd, were immediately used great success, and their peculiarity is the variety of genres: poems, ballads, sonnets, riddles, songs, sayings - he could do everything.

He has been awarded many prizes, and his poems have been translated into dozens of languages.

The most famous works are “Twelve Months”, “Luggage”, “The Tale of a Stupid Mouse”, “He’s So Absent-Minded”, “Mustachioed and Striped” and others.

Agnia Lvovna Barto (1906-1981)

Agnia Barto was an exemplary student; already at school she began to write poetry and epigrams for the first time.

Now many children are brought up on her poems; her light, rhythmic poems have been translated into many languages ​​of the world.

Agnia was an active literary figure all her life, a member of the jury of the Andersen Competition.

In 1976 she received the H.H. Andersen Prize.

The most famous poems are “Bullfinch”, “Bullfinch”, “Tamara and I”, “Lyubochka”, “Bear”, “Man”, “I am growing” and others.

Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (1913-2009)

He devoted a lot of time to social activities, although at first he did not have a dream of becoming a writer: in his youth he was both a laborer and a member of a geological exploration expedition.

We all remember such works as “Uncle Styopa is a policeman”, “What do you have”, “Song of Friends”, “The Three Little Pigs”, “On New Year’s Eve” and others.

Contemporary children's writers

Grigory Bentsionovich Oster

A children's writer, from whose works adults can learn a lot of interesting things.

He was born in Odessa, served in the navy, his life is still very active: he is a presenter, a talented author, and a cartoon screenwriter. “Monkeys”, “A Kitten Named Woof”, “38 Parrots”, “Caught That Bitten” - all these cartoons were filmed according to his script, and “Bad Advice” is a book that has gained enormous popularity.

By the way, an anthology of children’s literature was published in Canada: the books of most writers have a circulation of 300-400 thousand, and Auster’s “Bad Advice” sold 12 million copies!

Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky

From childhood, Eduard Uspensky was a leader, participated in KVN, organized skit parties, then he first tried his hand at being a writer, and later began writing plays for children's radio programs, children's theaters, and dreamed of creating his own magazine for children.

The writer became famous thanks to the cartoon “Gena the Crocodile and His Friends”; since then the long-eared symbol, Cheburashka, has settled in almost every home.

We also still love the book and cartoon “Three from Prostokvashino”, “The Koloboks Are Investigating”, “Plasticine Crow”, “Baba Yaga Against!” and others.

JK Rowling

Speaking about modern children's writers, it is simply impossible not to remember the author of the series of books about Harry Potter, the boy wizard and his friends.

It is the best-selling book series in history, and the films based on them have grossed huge amounts of money at the box office.

Rowling went from obscurity and poverty to... worldwide fame. At first, not a single editor agreed to accept and publish a book about a wizard, believing that such a genre would be uninteresting to readers.

Only the small publishing house Bloomsbury agreed - and it was right.

Now Rowling continues to write, is involved in charity and social activities, she is a realized author and a happy mother and wife.

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Escaped Agatha Christie and spiritualist Conan Doyle

Have you ever wondered that two of England's greatest deductive minds lived and worked at the same time? Moreover, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an active participant in the search operation during the disappearance of Agatha Christie. In 1926, the writer’s husband asked her for a divorce, since he was already in love with someone else. This was a huge blow for the creator of the mustachioed Poirot. And she disappeared. Rumor has it that Christie wanted to commit suicide and fabricate evidence against her unfaithful husband.

And among the volunteers from all over the country who helped find the literary diva, Sir Conan Doyle himself turned out to be. True, all his help consisted in the fact that he took Agatha’s glove to a famous medium. You won’t believe it, but the man who invented the most pragmatic and atheistic character of all time was an ardent supporter and promoter of spiritualism, and simply believed in all otherworldly forces. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the medium did not help the search operation in any way, and the writer was found 10 days later in a small spa hotel outside the city, where she calmly registered under the name of a careless homewrecker and drank cocktails for the entire 10 days. By the way, no one knows when, how and why Agatha Christie ended up in that hotel. The writer herself claims that she had short-term amnesia. But we are girls, we guess...

Lord Byron or Casanova?

Byron's love affairs are legendary. Biographers clearly include in his biography the fact that once in one year of Venice, Byron had the good fortune of “communicating” with more than 250 ladies. And this despite the fact that the poet definitely limped and was extremely prone to being overweight. Moreover, the pride of all England had a rather strange collection. He collected strands of hair from the most intimate places their lovers. The curls, and at that time there probably were some, were lovingly kept in envelopes, where the poet himself wrote out the names in his own hand: “Countess Guiccioli”, “Carolina Lamb”... In the 80s, to the great regret of literary scholars, the collection was lost and no trace of it has been found to this day por.

But the most common gossip revolves around George Byron's love for youths and animals. If the first is exactly what you thought, then the second is platonic love. In the poet’s personal mini-pet one could find crocodiles, badgers, horses, monkeys and many different animals. And the great English romantic poet became furious at the sight of an ordinary salt shaker. Rumor has it that such people were never present at the lavish festivities with the lord. The secret of such fierce aggression towards the salt shaker remained unsolved.

Papa Hem and his cats

Everyone has heard about the cat lover, alcoholic and suicide Hemingway. He really did suffer from a severe form of paranoia, he really did endure a number of sophisticated psychiatric techniques, and towards the end of his life he stopped writing. And when Hemingway died, American intelligence agencies confirmed what great writer He kept repeating all his life - he was really being followed.

But there is another side to the coin. The ideal man, life-fighter and womanizer, American dad Hem loved Cuban mojitos, beautiful journalists and honesty in everything. One day sipping a friendly cocktail another giant American literature, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, complained to Hemingway that his wife Zelda considered his “manhood” relatively small. To which the writer took him to the toilet, gave him a control check, and then reassured poor Fitzgerald that everything was fine. He already knew.

But as for cats, Hemingway’s favorite pet was Snowball, who has a small defect - six toes on soft paws. Now you can meet the descendants of Snowball, who continue to pay tribute to the genius of literature, and live in the house-museum of Uncle Hem in Florida.

Charlie and the Bax Factory

Being just a child, the future pride of England, Charles Dickens, had a very hard time. The writer's father ended up in debtor's prison, and little Charlie had to go to work, unfortunately, not at a chocolate factory, but at a real waxing factory, where the young talent had to stick labels on jars of polish all day long. No football with slingshots, no hulabud on a tree. That is why Dickens's images of unfortunate orphans were so realistic.

In general, one can write and write about the oddities of Charles John Dickens. The most famous of them says that the writer could not sit at the table or go to bed with his head not facing north. Charlie wrote his brilliant works in precisely this direction.

Legend has it that Dickens was an avid hypnotist and mesmerist (telepathic communication between humans and animals), and even went into trances at random. During this state, the writer fiddled with his hats, which very quickly wore out after the attacks. Later I even had to give up hats altogether. Well, among other things, the English prose writer’s favorite pastime was going to the morgue. Especially in those sections where unidentified bodies were exhibited. A wonderful time, I must say!

Antosha Chekhonte

A domestic example of a writer’s difficult childhood is everyone’s favorite Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, whose father ran a tailor’s shop and forced his youths to work in it. Little Anton managed to study and sing in the church choir, but he never saw his childhood.

Another extremely interesting fact about the great satirist: Chekhov kept more than 50 original pseudonyms in his arsenal: Champagne, My Brother's Brother, The Man Without a Spleen, Arkhip Indeykin, and of course, Antosha Chekhonte - only part of Chekhov's boundless fantasy.

But Stanislavsky describes such a story in his memoirs. One day, while Anton Pavlovich was visiting him, a friend came to him. During the conversation, Chekhov was silent and only looked intently at the newcomer. When the guest left, the master of the short genre said: “Listen, he is a suicide,” to which Stanislavsky only laughed, because he had never met a more joyful, happy and optimistic person than this friend. Imagine the director’s amazement when a few years later the “cheerful” guest was poisoned.
And yet, contemporaries describe Chekhov as the kindest person on Earth. WITH light hand Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Russia has become richer in schools, hospitals and shelters for those who have nowhere to go.

Coffee instead of sex

Once a thief broke into the apartment of a young, not yet very successful, writer. When he began to rummage through the drawers in the only chest of drawers in the apartment, he heard loud laughter behind him. Honore de Balzac, that was the name of the aspiring writer, loudly remarked that it was unlikely that a thief would be able to find money where he had not been able to find it himself for a long time.

The author's contemporaries claim that it was acute feeling humor helped Balzac survive in sorrows and poverty. Humor and coffee. The famous Frenchman could drink about 50 cups of extremely strong coffee per day. Someone even calculated that during the writing of The Human Comedy, Balzac drank 15,000 cups of aromatic liquor. And this is without the beans that the coffee lover loved to chew when it was not possible to brew his favorite drink.

And Honore de Balzac believed that sex is tantamount to one thing good novel. A man's seed, in his competent opinion, is nothing more than particles of brain tissue. After a night of love, he even bitterly admitted to one of his friends that he had probably lost a brilliant work.

From comet to comet

Another lover of pseudonyms, Mark Twain, came up with more than a dozen of them. And “Mark Twain” itself meant “by the mark twain", that is, the safe immersion of the ship in two fathoms. In his youth, the creator of Tom Sawyer worked for a long time at one sea ​​vessel somewhere in the waters of the Mississippi.

Few people know that Samuel Clemens, that is the writer’s real name, was born two weeks after Halley’s Comet passed over the Earth. And in 1909, Twain wrote: “I was born with Halley, and I will leave with her.” On April 20, the comet circled the planet again, and the next day the genius was gone.

Probably, it was precisely this fact that Mark Twain predicted such an unreal life, full of secrets. One of the prose writer's best friends was the mysterious Nikola Tesla. Together with him, Twain participated in the development of mysterious inventions and even patented several, including an album with adhesive pages for photos and an original self-regulating suspenders.

And the world-famous American hated children (despite our favorites - Tom and Huck), but adored cats and tobacco. He started smoking when he was only 8 years old, and before last day throughout my life I smoked 30 cigars daily. Moreover, Twain chose the cheapest and most smelly varieties.

Among other things, Mark Twain was one of the most famous American Freemasons. Little is known about his activities in the lodge. His initiation took place in 1861 in the small town of St. Louis and he quickly advanced through the “ career ladder».

Looking for a green stick

Well last Hero of our article, a writer whose image has become legendary throughout Mother Russia. We have studied the life of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy from school inside and out. But do you know what influenced the writer’s ideas about universal peace, love and harmony? As a child, little Levushka’s brother told him many times a story about a magic green wand that can be found on the outskirts of that same Yasnaya Polyana and with its help make the world a much better place. It was this fairy tale that influenced the whole later life and the worldview of a great novelist and teacher.

But in my youth future star Russian literature suffered from a common disease - gambling. In one card game with his neighbor, the landowner Gorokhov, Tolstoy lost the house in which he grew up, and all on the same Yasnaya Polyana. Gorokhov, without thinking twice, dismantled the building brick by brick and moved it to his estate.

Tolstoy's oddities do not end there. On his wedding night, Lev Nikolaevich forced 18-year-old Sofia Bers to re-read his entire diary, especially devoting moments to love affairs. Tolstoy wanted to be honest with the woman he took as his wife, and told her about all his mistresses, including his affairs with countless peasant women. They say that what should happen between husband and wife did not happen that night.

Modern Russian children's writers of the 21st century and their works have replaced the long-familiar Chukovsky, with his Aibolit, and Nosov, with his beloved Dunno. Some modern works very controversial. After all, we are accustomed to the fact that children's fairy tales, stories and poems should be kind, instructive in some way, and goodness should certainly win.

In addition, there are outright graphomaniacs with unstable psyches, but they have enough money to publish their collections.

Therefore, it is very important to carefully sift out the literature that falls into the hands of children. After all, it shapes their psyche and suggests the line of their behavior in various situations.

Modern children's writers in Russia have moved away from classical Soviet children's literature and do not always put morality first. And yet, they manage to convey in a fun and accessible way to children what “good” is and what “bad” is.

Contemporary children's writers of Russia, list:

• Tatyana Bokova (I fell in love on Thursday. Miracles under New Year. Mom, Dad and I.)
• Sergey Georgiev (Christmas trees: Field Marshal Pulkin. Ball from Australia. Little green frog)
• Arthur Givargizov (Notes of an outstanding student. About dragons and policemen.)
• Tamara Kryukova (Shiny galosh on the right foot. Zhenya Moskvichev and his friends)
• Oleg Kurguzov (Birthday upside down. In the footsteps of Pochemuchka)
• Sergey Sedov (Hercules. 12 great labors. An eyewitness account.)
• Maria Bershadskaya (Big little girl.)
• Stanislav Vostokov (Do not feed, do not tease...)
• Arthur Givargizov (From grandfather's to children's.)
• Maria Aromstam (When the Angels rest.)

In fact, there are now a lot of children's writers, and only the most famous ones are listed here. How do people become writers? Most of them are dreamers and inventors, who themselves, having become parents, discovered that their children have nothing to read. Old fairy tales have long been read, and some of them are better protected from. It is difficult to teach children to read when there is a vacuum around, and this is in best case scenario. It's worse if the child gets stuck in computer games, where he develops not the simplest character.

Modern children's writers are psychologists, teachers and simply parents who endlessly love children, their own and others, and they grow up with their children, telling more and more fairy tales. They know children, and sometimes it is children who suggest fairy tales. Only the person who communicates with children every day can write an exciting story and tear the child away from the TV with cartoons.

And one should not underestimate the influence of children's fiction on the child's psyche. Books force a child to think and imagine images on his own, which does not happen when watching cartoons.

Parents should pay more attention to their child and choose fairy tales/stories that the child will understand and will like. He just doesn't know that such a thing exists. fairy world literature and does not know how to separate good books from bad ones.

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