Lewis Carroll: An Easter Greeting
byAN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES ‘ALICE’ [1] DEAR CHILD, Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real…
Children’s Literature
Toward An Ethics of Children’s Fiction
byAs parents, we all know we should be reading aloud to our children. There are countless anthologies of children’s literature that tell us what…
E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
bySeamus 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…
Word and Flesh
byStory is foundational to the Christian faith, and it is told through both words and illustration. When approaching children’s literature as a parent, the…
Jonah’s Scrapbook Journal: a journey of theological and artistic exploration
byI have always been excited by children’s literature and even now, at the age of 33, my good reads account is full of authors…
Incarnational Analogies: The Soteriology of The Runaway Bunny
byMargaret 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…
From Six to Sixty: Introduction to Children’s Literature Symposium
byJ.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…