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Ernest Thompson Seton, author, artist
Along with Charles G.D. Roberts, Seton gave the animal story its distinctive form (Library 
and Archives Canada/C-9485). 
Ida and the Wool Smugglers
Illustration by Ann Blades, published by Tundra Books 
(courtesy McClelland and Stewart). 
Kusugak, Michael
Kusugak hunted caribou, seals and whales with his parents by dog team when he was young. 
He relates these stories in his children's books (courtesy Maclean's). 

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Mary of Mile 18
Illustration by Ann Blades, published by Tundra Books (courtesy M&S). 
"Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
"Wynken, Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field, illustrated by Ron Berg (1985) (courtesy 
Ron Berg and Scholastic-TAB Publishing Ltd). 

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"Jillian Jiggs"
Author Phoebe Gilman created the well-known character "Jillian Jiggs," a tenacious little 
girl who loves to dress up but always makes a huge mess (courtesy Phoebe Gilman and Scholastic-
TAB Publishing Ltd). 
Children's Literature in English 
Children's literature in English, literature for children up to early adolescence, has been 
written since the mid-19th century. It was originally a literature in which portrayals of life in the 
new country - confrontations with and adaptations to the landscape and the native peoples, 
colonizing the territories and then creating and developing a nation - were in search of appropriate 
vehicles of expression. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the vehicles were generally those 
fashionable in Great Britain. At the turn of the century the animal story, the first distinctively 
Canadian genre, appeared. In the last half of the 20th century, authors and illustators have used a 
variety of genres to reflect the geographical and cultural diversity of Canadian life. 
The Animal Story 
Although animals had been mentioned in earlier literature, the works of Sir Charles 
G.D. 
ROBERTS
and Ernest Thompson 
SETON
gave the animal story its distinctive form. Seton's 
highly popular 
Wild Animals I Have Known
(1898) influenced Roberts, whose 
The Kindred of the 
Wild
appeared in 1902 and 
Red Fox
in 1905. Drawing on their observations of wildlife and their 
study of Darwinistic theories of natural selection, both writers focused on the lives of superior 
members of various species. In 
Red Fox
, Roberts combined exceptional strength and intelligence in 
an individual fox, making him the novel's hero. To Seton, the important fact of animal life was 
death, often at the hands of man and always tragic. Among later wild-animal stories that end with 
death are Roderick 
HAIG-BROWN's
Ki-yu: A Story of Panthers
(1934) and Fred Bodsworth's 
Last 
of the Curlews
(1955). 
Pets have also provided the focus for many children's books. One of the best-known early 
children's novels, Margaret Marshall Saunders's
Beautiful Joe
(1894), is the "autobiography" of a 
"cur" who, having been rescued from a cruel master, lives a long and happy life. 
Farley
MOWAT
's 
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
(1957) is the humorous story of Mutt, a pet who "at 
some early moment of his existence ... concluded there was no future in being a dog." 
Sheila 
BURNFORD'S
The Incredible Journey
(1960) is the account of a 400 km trek across 
northern Ontario undertaken by 2 dogs and a cat. 

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The Adventure Story 
The adventure story, a major form of Victorian children's literature, influenced Canadian 
books in the 19th century and, to a lesser degree, the 20th. Emphasizing the goodness of the British 
Empire, Christianity and physical courage, such British novels as Frederick Marryat's