20世纪中国儿童文学的发生和发展,是与周作人为之作出的努力密切相关的,许多学者都已看到了这一历史事实。如:《世界儿童文学事典》对周作人的评价是“中国现代儿童文学的先驱、童话理论家”①;杨晋豪指出:“他(指周作人)都很明显地叙述出他对于民间文学和儿童文学的理论的建设 The occurrence and development of Chinese children’s literature in the 20th century were closely related to the efforts made by Zhou Zuoren, and many scholars have already seen this historical fact. For instance, the evaluation of Zhou Zuoren by the World Children’s Literature Dictionary is “a pioneer and fairy tale theorist of modern Chinese children’s literature.” Yang Jinhao pointed out: "He (referring to Zhou Zuoren) clearly stated that he is very interested in folk literature and children Literary theory building