<P> Twentieth - century artists such as Kay Nielson, Edmund Dulac, and Arthur Rackham produced illustrations that are still reprinted today . Developments in printing capabilities were reflected in children's books . After World War II, offset lithography became more refined, and painter - style illustrations, such as Brian Wildsmith's were common by the 1950s . </P> <P> Professional organizations, dedicated publications, individual researchers and university courses conduct scholarship on children's literature . Scholarship in children's literature is primarily conducted in three different disciplinary fields: literary studies / cultural studies (literature and language departments and humanities), library and information science, and education . (Wolf, et al., 2011). </P> <P> Typically, children's literature scholars from literature departments in universities (English, German, Spanish, etc. departments), cultural studies, or in the humanities conduct literary analysis of books . This literary criticism may focus on an author, a thematic or topical concern, genre, period, or literary device and may address issues from a variety of critical stances (poststructural, postcolonial, New Criticism, psychoanalytic, new historicism, etc .). Results of this type of research are typically published as books or as articles in scholarly journals . </P> <P> The field of Library and Information Science has a long history of conducting research related to children's literature . </P>

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