väärttteosed (Kersti Merilaasi lasteluulekogu, Marta Sillaotsa jutud) Saksa okupatsiooni ajal. 1945-1954: stalinistlik vulgaarsotsioloogiline kirjanduskäsitus. Varasema lastekirjanduse ärakeelamine, fantaasia ja muinasjutulisuse kahtluse alla seadmine. Rõhutatud ideoloogiline ja poliitiline kasvatus, positiivse-negatiivse (eeskujude ja vaenlaste) vastandamine. Nõukogude tõlkekirjanduse mõju: A. Gaidar Timur ja tema meeskond; V. Gubarev Pavlik Morozov; S. Mihhalkovi, L. Voronkova jt teosed. Lasteperioodika osa nõukogulikus kasvatuses: Pioneer, Säde, Stalinlik Noorus. Kooli- ja pioneerijutud, nt: Aino Tigane Keerdsõlm 1948, Meid kutsub signaal 1953; Holger Pukk Kaks punast kaelarätti 1953, Salga au 1955. Vabama ja loomingulisema osa moodustavad looma(muinas)jutud: autoriteks Richard Roht, Juhan Kallak, August Jakobson, Leida Tigane. Hinnatavat leidub lasteluules
children's science fiction. It was meant to educate children while entertaining them. The star of the genre was Bulychov, who, along with his adult books, created children's space adventure series about Alisa Selezneva, a teenage girl from the future. Others include Nikolay Nosov with his books about dwarf Neznayka, Evgeny Veltistov, who wrote about robot boy Electronic, Vitaly Melentyev, Vladislav Krapivin, Vitaly Gubarev. Mystery was another popular genre. Detectives by brothers Arkady and Georgy Vayner and spy novels by Yulian Semyonov were best-selling, and many of them were adapted into film or TV in the 1970s and 1980s. Village prose is a genre that conveys nostalgic descriptions of rural life. Valentin Rasputin's 1976 novel, Proshchaniye s Matyoroy (Farewell to Matyora) depicted a village faced with destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant.