A LOOK AT CHILDRENS LITERATURE ENGLISH LITERATURE ESSAY

Childrens Literature plays a vital role in determining the society to its sublimity. Children are no more called or considered the savages, but as solid pillars of the world. There lies an imperative in nurturing the young minds with healthy thoughts and disciplined behaviors. Words have immense power to build or destroy the souls of a nation. Children’s literature continues to be seen as a crucial resource in nurturing the child’s progress from basic literacy to a level of critical and cultural literacy necessary for effective adult life (Hollindale, 18). As Lens Unsworth has pointed out Margaret Meek’s notion, it is the kinds of texts that children have access to and the kinds of interactions they experience around those texts that influence the kind of readers they become (5). Literature written for them offers enjoyment, stirs their imagination and inspiration, gives them a vicarious experience by viewing situations from perspectives other than their own. Literature helps children to gain an appreciation of the universality of human beings, and understand that all human beings are alike, though bounded with multicultural way of living. Literature with moral reasoning gives an experience for young people to formulate their own concepts of right and wrong and build a morally actuated life.

Research in Children’s literature offers the opportunity for a meticulous examination of the literature of the child and it links the child, the author, the text, and the world outside literature. Researchers have made up their mind to study the rhetoric or form by accepting the self contained