Childrens Literature: The Importance Of Children's Literature

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Children’s literature is, as Peter Hunt argued, a ‘remarkable area of writing: it is one of the roots of western culture, it is enjoyed passionately by adults as well as children, and it has exercised huge talents over hundreds of years’. Children’s literature is good quality books for children from birth to adolescence, coating topics about importance and interests to children of those ages, through prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Children’s literature is probably the most exciting and vibrant of all literary studies, and its wide range of texts, from novels to picture books, and from oral forms to multimedia and the internet, presents a huge challenge. The important theme in children’s literature is the tension between the popular and the prestigious, or in other …show more content…

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, the popular fantasy trilogy novel talks about the journey and adventures of an adolescent protagonist Lyra through parallel worlds, this novel explores the relationship between stories, and religious identity by building the concept or idea of religious narrative identity. Margaret and Michael Rustin considers Northern lights as an examination of domestic family relationships. Pullman influenced by the idea or the concept of the myth of the fall from John Milton’s ‘Lost Paradis’. Pullman discussed in Northern Lights many themes such as, love, religion, fantasy, science, domestic family atmosphere, realism, and the religious authority on society. He put all his ideologies in Northern Lights, concepts of freedom that takes you to the knowledge, the importance of sex to maturation, and how can a child transmit from innocent to experience. Pullman embodies himself and his ideologies in Lyra’s character, also he called Lyra ’Eve again’ to reinforce her role as disobedient liberator of humanity through knowledge. “His Dark Materials” concerns the nature of

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