Children's literature

Quality:

Children's literature - stories, books, magazines, and poems that are primarily written for children. Article “Children's literature” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Children's literature”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2087 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 204 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 33317 times in all languages (5083^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #455 in March 2022
• Global: #194 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9697 in March 2015
• Global: #15052 in April 2010

There are 43 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Children's literature		84.2849
2	Swedish (sv) Barnlitteratur		54.7074
3	Italian (it) Letteratura per ragazzi		48.5023
4	Arabic (ar) أدب أطفال		46.8397
5	Catalan (ca) Literatura infantil		45.9843
6	Russian (ru) Детская литература		43.1073
7	Japanese (ja) 児童文学		38.6035
8	Hebrew (he) ספרות ילדים		34.0231
9	Slovenian (sl) Otroška književnost		34.0096
10	Serbian (sr) Књижевност за децу		33.7222

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Children's literature		6 011 641
2	Spanish (es) Literatura infantil		2 121 951
3	Japanese (ja) 児童文学		732 404
4	Russian (ru) Детская литература		649 823
5	Italian (it) Letteratura per ragazzi		607 922
6	Arabic (ar) أدب أطفال		469 965
7	Chinese (zh) 儿童文学		270 733
8	Hindi (hi) बाल साहित्य		188 865
9	Uzbek (uz) Bolalar adabiyoti		181 373
10	Hebrew (he) ספרות ילדים		168 081

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Children's literature		15 076
2	Japanese (ja) 児童文学		1 423
3	Spanish (es) Literatura infantil		1 111
4	Italian (it) Letteratura per ragazzi		940
5	Russian (ru) Детская литература		885
6	Chinese (zh) 儿童文学		661
7	Hindi (hi) बाल साहित्य		425
8	Persian (fa) ادبیات کودکان		389
9	Hebrew (he) ספרות ילדים		340
10	Swedish (sv) Barnlitteratur		302

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Children's literature		770
2	Italian (it) Letteratura per ragazzi		164
3	Spanish (es) Literatura infantil		120
4	Russian (ru) Детская литература		104
5	Hebrew (he) ספרות ילדים		89
6	Japanese (ja) 児童文学		76
7	Chinese (zh) 儿童文学		64
8	Hindi (hi) बाल साहित्य		59
9	Swedish (sv) Barnlitteratur		58
10	Arabic (ar) أدب أطفال		54

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Children's literature		6
2	Arabic (ar) أدب أطفال		1
3	Catalan (ca) Literatura infantil		1
4	Spanish (es) Literatura infantil		1
5	Basque (eu) Haur literatura		1
6	Persian (fa) ادبیات کودکان		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Uşaq ədəbiyyatı		0
8	Belarusian (be) Дзіцячая літаратура		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Детска литература		0
10	Czech (cs) Literatura pro děti		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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