Talk:Children's literature canon

Harry Potter

I have nothing against Harry Potter, but it much too soon since its publication to determine its canonical status. Gross sales does not determine canon status. Plus there are more than a few critics (Harold Bloom) who have predicted it will be largely be forgotten in a generation or two, and honestly, %99 of best sellers are, it's really just wishful thinking to put this on the canon list so soon. Fothergill Volkensniff IV (talk) 03:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I must conceed that it is possible that Harry Potter will become completely irrelevant to children's literature at some future date. However, that is not the case today. Millions of children all over the world have read and love these books. If sales do not determine canon status, what does? If time is to be a consideration in establishing this canon, it must so be stated in the lead paragraph of this article. --ErinHowarth (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Poor list

This is an interesting list but how can Wikipedia have a canon list with no citations? It might as well be "a list that some random editor(s) decided were best". There is no mention how this list was created. It's also missing some of the most important works including Robinson Crusoe (although not written for kids it was widely read by them before there was a genre) and The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), one of the most popular kids books of the 19th century. The way to make this "list of" article is to summarize other lists created by authorities elsewhere with citations. There are tons of lists like this around that can be used as sources. Fothergill Volkensniff IV (talk) 03:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion for potential reference

[1] This seems like a relatively scholarly examination of just this topic. I'm not sure how many people watch this article, but what do you guys think of using this as a source for expansion of this article? H₂O Shipper 23:26, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Criteria

I think this is a great article, but it is sorely lacking in criteria. Whatever the criteria are for getting a book on this list, that criteria must be stated in the article. At the same time, I don't think it can be a list of books that Wikipedia editors have chosen as important, that would be original research. It would be awesome, but we're not supposed to do that here. It might only be possible to create a list of lists. There are reading and literary organization that put out lists like this such as the American Library Association and the International Reading Association. --ErinHowarth (talk) 18:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Overlap

This list overlaps with List of children's classic books. Some thought should go into what the roles of these two lists are. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

• There's also some more overlap with Children's literature timeline.. --Narayan (talk) 18:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• That's a curious one. Thanks for pointing it out. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm thinking about proposing a merge, what do you think?--Narayan (talk) 19:25, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Someone already has proposed a merge of this page to List of children's classic books. I have linked the proposal to a discussion on the talk page for that list. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)