★ A brief history of world literature development tailored for children! Let children understand and master everything about literature in a relaxed and interesting way!
★ This book introduces us the history and encyclopedia of literature from ancient times to the present in the order of time. By Live and lively language with interesting illustrations brought readers into the history of literature for thousands of years!
★ From the first epic of human beings to the peak of ancient Greek literature, from ancient Egyptian books, Indian poetry to graphic novels, from the global magic literature classics to extensive popular online novels, fascinating stories and vast knowledge make this book a colorful literary scroll.
★ Here you can not only meet more than 300 writers, poets, and play writers, but also learn to understand literary style and factions. All knowledge fragments about literature will be connected into a network system and form a huge literary development context.
★ Suitable for children aged 7-14, highly recommended to children, parents, teachers, and all readers who are interested in literature and books!

In this book, everything about literature is talked about and is understood and mastered by the children in a relaxed and interesting way. This book introduces the history and encyclopedia of literature from ancient times to the present in accordance with the order of time. With lively language with interesting illustrations, thousands of years of literary history, from the first epic of mankind, the "Gilgamesh Epic" with wedge -shaped text on the twelve mud boards, to the peak of ancient Greek literature "Odyssey", from ancient Egyptian books, Indian poetry to graphic novels From the world -renowned magical literary classic "Harry Potter", to the current online novels, fascinating stories and broad knowledge make this book a colorful literary scroll.

In addition to telling the history of literature and the story of literature, it also connects all knowledge fragments into a network system to help children form a big literary concept. Through this book, children will understand how literature appears? What are the common points of the ancient Greek tragedy and Hollywood blockbuster? What are the common points between ancient poets and famous directors? How do women break into the list of the most popular writers in the world? How do women's power be manifested in poetry and prose? And why is the rapper is also a poet? Why do writers like to suffer pain? Also find out which poem is the longest poem in the world (lasted 1,500 years)? And how does comic works develop in literature? etc.

Through this book, small readers will also learn what is romanticism, realism, and modernism, what is utopia and anti -utopia, and distinguish them; understand the European Renaissance and the fourteenth line poems, as well as the origin and development of Cyberpunk culture; and others, in addition, readers will also get a list of impressive reading works.

Elena Kuznetsova (Strelnikova) is a literary columnist and editor of the culture department of Fontanki.ru, the leading online publication in St. Petersburg, and the author of the Literary Whiner telegram channel. She wrote about books and reading for Gorky, Colta.ru, Poster. Daily, RBC. She created the Book in a Comic Book project with young comics artists and illustrators, organized online readings of Brodsky from Self-Isolation for the poet’s 80th birthday.
Author of interviews with Prix Goncourt laureate Eric Vuillard, Booker winner David Grossman, National Best winner Alexei Salnikov and other famous writers.
Graduated from St. Petersburg State University (2011), Ph.D. in Philology (2016). She trained in the USA under the A Journey of Shared Discovery program.

Victoria Samsonova is an illustrator and graduated from Kursk State University in 2012 with a degree in Art Education. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Collaborates with publishing houses and authors from Russia, USA, Great Britain, Kuwait, China, Poland, Canada, Mexico and Belarus. Among them are the brands Raffaello, Ehrmann, Gazprom, Yandex.Chef, the Kontinental Hockey League; magazines - Atlasia Kids Magazine, AWW Mag, Mom / Dad; publishing houses - MIF, Bean of Childhood, Phoenix, Nigma, Piter, Wise Oyster, Intelligent Change.
She was a member of the British illustration agency Advocate Art and taught children and adults. Victoria's source of inspiration is people of different ages and nationalities, historical figures and close acquaintances.