Around 2007, several self-proclaimed norm-critical publishing companies were established in Sweden. This caused a long debate in the daily press, where some critics compared the ”norm-critical” books to propaganda. The debate indicates a conflict between an aesthetic and a didactic approach to children’s literature. Another lively debate with simil...
This study investigates the uses and functions of swear words in children’s literature, analyzing Ulf Stark’s Rymlingarna (The Runaways, 2018) and Oskar Kroon’s Överallt och ingenstans (Everywhere and Nowhere, 2020). In both novels there are characters swearing recurringly, even though swear words are usually not frequently used in literature for y...
This paper aims to reclaim the children’s literature production of the Ukrainian writer Vsévolod Garshin (1855-1888) and assess its possible anticipation of the genre known as anti-fables, new fables or refables. Garshin is a Russian literary author widely recognized in Europe, but little known in Spain. The first part of this paper presents some d...
Multiple studies show that growing up with a mentally ill parent affects children in many ways. In recent years many children ́s picturebooks about mental illness have been published, making it an accessible subject for the youngest readers. The aim of this study is to examine how children’s experiences of parental mental illness is described in pi...
Research into the role of literature in the Nordic classroom has shown that literary texts are predominantly seen as a tool for the developing of literacy skills and often focus on the structural components of the text itself. This often leads to the equally important creative and playful aspects being sidelined. Addressing this imbalance, the pres...
The review article concerns the publication by Anna Nosek “Co dać dziecku na gwiazdkę?” Studia nad kulturą czytelniczą i krytyką literatury dla młodych odbiorców w XIX wieku (“What to Give a Child for Christmas?” Studies on Reading Culture and Literary Criticism for Young Readers in the 19th Century). The article indicates that this publication is ...
The author discusses the growing popularity of picture-books and gives a critical overview of the problems of the definition of the genre. He concentrates on the two recent works of Iwona Chmielewska which address the issues of the Holocaust, representing different approaches to the genre, experimenting with the book as a material and visual object...
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Children’s literature provides a critical method of socialization and familiarization with gender roles, providing examples, boundaries, and limitations for gender identity construction. While extensive research has been done on how children’s literature depicts both traditional and non-traditional gender roles, very little research has been publis...
L’article se propose de partager une pratique d’écriture créative menée pendant plusieurs années auprès d’étudiants de Master MEEF 1er degré, futurs professeurs des écoles devant enseigner, en plus de toutes les disciplines scolaires, la langue anglaise. L’écriture de poèmes et notamment de limericks, ainsi que des ateliers d’écriture à partir d’al...
Ce texte issu de deux entretiens avec Michel Manson retrace son parcours d’historien de l’enfance. Il explique que, malgré les travaux de Philippe Ariès, les enfants restaient encore, au commencement de sa carrière dans les années 1970, singulièrement absents des préoccupations historiques. De l’Antiquité à nos jours, sont considérées les trois gra...
