Historians of children’s literature sometimes speak of a First and a Second Golden Age. The First was the Victorian/Edwardian period, when many of the most enduring classics were written – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Little Women, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows – and the main genres of children’s literature (fantasy, adventure, animal stories, school stories, family sagas) were established. This period is generally thought to have come to an end around the outbreak of the First World War. For whatever reasons, the interwar period produced rather less memorable children’s literature.