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Children’s Literature
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Toward An Ethics of Children’s Fiction
Posted on 11/11/2011 | 3 CommentsAs parents, we all know we should be reading aloud to our children. There are countless anthologies of children’s literature that tell us what to read to children. There are also many books, like Jim Trelease’s Read Aloud Handbook, that... -
E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
Posted on 10/11/2011 | 1 CommentSeamus Heaney’s “The Railway Children” from his 1984 collection Station Island, offers an almost ekphrastic response to E. Nesbit’s classic British children’s story, The Railway Children. In the poem, Heaney comments on the perception of the world by children and... -
Word and Flesh
Posted on 09/11/2011 | 3 CommentsStory is foundational to the Christian faith, and it is told through both words and illustration. When approaching children’s literature as a parent, the importance of story is always before me. Yes, I want my children to achieve scholastically and... -
Jonah’s Scrapbook Journal: a journey of theological and artistic exploration
Posted on 08/11/2011 | 2 CommentsI have always been excited by children’s literature and even now, at the age of 33, my good reads account is full of authors such as Oliver Jeffers, Neil Gaiman and Emily Gravett. When I was young, I worked my... -
Incarnational Analogies: The Soteriology of The Runaway Bunny
Posted on 07/11/2011 | 2 CommentsMargaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s story The Runaway Bunny1 (illustrated by Clement Hurd) has garnered scant scholarly attention since its publication in 1942, although academic interest in the book was briefly revived in the 1990s by the publication of Margaret... -
From Six to Sixty: Introduction to Children’s Literature Symposium
Posted on 03/11/2011 | 8 CommentsJ.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote in his “On Fairy Stories” I will now turn to children, and so come to the last and most important of the three questions: what, if any, are the values and functions of fairy-stories now? It...
