CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Does children's literature offer alternative visions of the world?



Does children's literature offer alternative visions of the world?

Introduction

Historical overview of children's books, especially fairy tales, reflects the attitude of society towards children and death. Most readers do not know that every story has its own history, and many of them originated in the seventeenth century, whether oral or adult entertainment. Many featured common humor and sensational events. How do these stories have been transcribed and are designed specifically for children, they have been modified to contain the incidents and behaviors that reflect customs and place the period in which they were told. They contain material intended to provide moral leadership, and in earlier versions of the death of children's stories was a prominent due to its prevalence and drama. Throughout the centuries there has been significant transformation tales, storybooks and textbooks (basal readers). In the early twentieth century until 1970, so is disturbing to children, including death, have been softened and removed. Although later works of the twentieth century began to reverse this trend, many children today are isolated from the discussion of death in their literature.

Discussion

Textbooks have been designed primarily to educate, to teach morals, and to help in the socialization of children. Books for children's education precede the development of children's literature for pleasure. Charles Perrault and the Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm wrote fairy tales for children care about the dangers and consequences of misconduct.

Literature specifically for children did not develop until the mid-seventeenth century. Until that time, children were seen as miniature adults or less than human, as is characteristic of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French humanist and essayist. In Off his head! (1992), Maria Tatar, a professor of Germanic languages and literature at Harvard University, notes that the literature of early childhood was unusually harsh and coercive in a row. Early books are often written to scare children themselves, as parents would like. Two approaches predominated: cautionary tales and exemplary stories. In the cautionary tales of the hero was either killed or permanently made miserable because disobeyed. History of good behavior was also a strange way to end on his deathbed of his heroes.

1658 Jan Amos Comenius in Latin textbook world of things clearly Senses Drawn in pictures was the first book, painting for children and the first to recognize that children need their own literature. In 1744 John Newbery wrote Little Pretty Pocket Book for Children. While other children's books have been published previously, this book is credited as English literature to begin children, because this book was designed for entertainment, rather than educate. Newbury recognized as the first major publisher of children's literature.

Between 1920 and 1970, deaths and death have been removed or glossed over in the children's reading material. At the same time, religious material was removed from school textbooks for children. Only since the late 1970's and early 1980 this trend has reversed. Children's books from the twenty-first century often have to deal with feelings, divorce, sex and ...