Popular Children's Literature in Britain

摘要

Once upon a time the term popular took on connotations of a value judgment in children's reading, as writers like Enid Blyton or G.A. Henty, who were prolific and popular by reason of high sales were contrasted with quality alternatives, like Carnegie Medal winners in the twentieth century and works like At the Back of the North Wind and The Daisy Chain in the nineteenth. This probably drew on the snobbery associated with Leavisite criticism, and the debate about "quality" in fiction in public libraries. It persists today in discussions about the value of computer games and Harry Potter.