A recent Slate Explainer details what children read before the advent of “children’s literature.”
The answer: “Epic poems, religious literature, romances, and Aesop.”
Looks like English kids had it better than most, with their stories about adventurous knights and talking foxes, at least until Hans Christian Andersen came along.
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