In many textbooks of children's literature, fantasy is frequently treated together with fairy tales, but

there is a significant difference. One elemet that is immediateli recognized as characteristic of the
fantasy genre is the presence of magic, or any other form of the supernatural, in an otherwise
realistic world. So, fantasy may be defined as a narrative combining real world and some other
fantastic imagined world.

Fantasy novels differ from eachother because of the way in which the magic world is connected with
the real world, and the purpose of sending the character into the other world. There is intrusive,
portal, immersive fantasy. Often in the fantasy novels character comes home from the magic world
because that gives the child readers security about their own reality.

Elements of the supernatural and the fantastic were a part of literature from its beginning, even
old civilisations had folk tales with fantastic elements. John Ruskin's The King of the Golden
River . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , However, it was the advent of high fantasy, and most
of all J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which reached new heights of
popularity in the late 1960s, that allowed fantasy to truly enter the mainstream.[21] Several other
series, such as C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books,
helped cement the genre's popularity.
The popularity of the fantasy genre has continued to increase in the 21st century, as evidenced
by the best-selling status of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and George R. R. Martin's Song of
Ice and Fire series.
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