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Direct linkHameed, Alya – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
Though many children's texts include maps that visually demarcate their journeys, modern texts rarely involve active mapping by child characters themselves, suggesting that children cannot (or should not) conceptualise the world for themselves, but require an adult's guidance to traverse it. Reif Larsen's "The Selected Works of T. S.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Maps, Cartography, Self Concept
Moruzi, Kristine – Children's Literature in Education, 2005
In the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, Pullman reworks the fall of humanity into an ascent and suggests that ascent into adulthood through sexual experience is the desired goal for children. Although this ascent is accompanied by a radical reconceptualization of life and death, Pullman fails to offer any genuinely new ideas of the world with respect…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Child Role
Peer reviewedPlotz, Judith – Children's Literature in Education, 1988
Summarizes several leading theories regarding the disappearance of childhood in modern society. Examines this pattern of eroding childhood in two young adult novels, Robert Cormier's AFTER THE FIRST DEATH and Cynthia Voight's A SOLITARY BLUE. (MM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Child Role, Children, Family Life
Peer reviewedDonovan, Ann – Children's Literature in Education, 1983
Makes observations on a new stereotype in the treatment of mothers in current children's fiction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Characterization, Child Role, Childrens Literature
