5 Perfect Children's Books That Became Even Better Movies

Before the mid-18th century, books were very rarely written to entertain young minds. In the Medieval world, children were expected to enter the adult world quickly; so, texts (whether religious, historical, or fictional) were meant to help their minds come of age. It wasn't until philosophers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau began to shift the ideas about childhood that were widely held in Europe at the time that the world began to see the publication of books that were actually meant to amuse children, as well as instill them with valuable moral lessons. Thus, where kids used to only have oral traditions like fables and fairy tales as forms of entertainment, true children's literature was born.