What are the main genres of children's literature?

The genres of children's literature mainly include children's songs, children's poems, fairy tales, fables, children's stories, children's novels, children's essays, children's scientific literature and art, children's dramas and so on.

First, children's songs

Children's songs, also known as nursery rhymes, are specially created for young children, which is an easy-to-read, easy-to-remember and easy-to-sing poetry genre that conforms to the psychological characteristics and appreciation interests of children of this age.

The basic characteristics of children's songs are: short length and simple structure; Popular language and strong musicality; The content is simple and the theme is single. The main types of children's songs are lullabies, counting songs, quiz songs, serial tunes, game songs, tongue twisters, riddles, subversive songs and so on.

Second, children's poems

Children's poems are written for children, expressing their interests and wishes with beautiful rhythm and concise language, which is suitable for children's understanding level, acceptance ability and psychological characteristics.

Third, fairy tales

Fairy tales are a literary genre, mainly for children. It is a fictional story with strong fantasy, which shapes the image and reflects life through rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbol. Its language is popular and vivid, and its stories are often bizarre and interesting.

From the perspective of the production and author of the works, they can be divided into three categories: folk fairy tales (oral fairy tales), literary fairy tales (artistic fairy tales or creative fairy tales) and modern fairy tales.

Fourth, fable

There are probably two types of fables: one is to outline the characteristics and thoughts of a certain kind of people by exaggeration; The other is to personify animals, plants or non-living things other than people by anthropomorphic methods, so that they have people's thoughts and feelings or some people's characteristics.