中国儿童文学学科重要奠基人、国际儿童文学格林奖的首位华人获得者蒋风先生在《儿童文学原理》引言中说:“虽然西方儿童文学创作的起步要比东方早,儿童文学创作的实绩也比东方丰厚,但把儿童文学作为一门学科来研究,东方的起步却并不比西方晚……中国把儿童文学作为一门学科来研究,起步既不晚于西欧也不晚于日本,这一历史功绩是不可抹煞的。” Mr. Jiang Feng, the first Chinese winner of the International Children's Literature Green Award, said in an introduction to the “Principles of Children's Literature”: “Although the starting of western children's literature creation is earlier than that of the East, the achievement of children's literature creation But also rich than the East, but the children's literature as a discipline to study, the East's start is no later than the West ... ... China's children's literature as a discipline to study, starting neither later than Western Europe nor later than Japan, which A historical merit can not be wronged. ”