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It is hard to imagine a world without books for children. Ever since there were children, there has been children's literature too. There have been children's stories and folk-tales when man first learned to speak. Children's books, however, are a late growth of literature. Miss Yonge says, "Up to the Georgian era there were no books at all for children or the poor, excepting the class-books containing old ballads and short tales". We shall nevertheless see that there were English…