Superseded Children’s Fiction in Other Languages. The collection includes only fiction that would have been kept in school and public libraries. (Graded readers are kept in Part 4 of this archive).

Rationale for collecting superseded children’s fiction. Once children, teachers and parents lose interest in children’s fiction books their working life is over. They are usually withdrawn and discarded. Once researchers need them as primary sources examples are notoriously hard to find. Examples of children’s fiction therefore ought to be preserved in archives.