Neverland and Our Land: Imagining Indigenous Peoples in the Worlds of Peter Pan
A discussion of the various ways in which the Indigenous people included in James Barrie’s Peter Pan stories have been depicted on stage and screen and in a wide range of illustrations, editions, and adaptations of his plays and novels.
Characteristics Frequently Present in Texts Written for Children
This list, which appears at the end of the first chapter of my book The Hidden Adult: Defining Children’s Literature, emerged from a close reading of five different but, I believe, representative English-language stories for children.
A version of a list that first appeared in my textbook The Pleasures of Children’s Literature of a variety of ways in which literature offers readers pleasure.
Written many years ago, this piece imagines a world in which younger people specialize in octogenarian literature and clever practitioners of senile literature are sometimes awarded the Oldbery prize.
Some Common Assumptions about Children
Over the years, as I’ve spoken with university students, parents, teachers, librarians, and other adults about children’s literature, I’ve been surprised by how often they agree with each other about it. Listed here are a few ideas that I’ve heard expressed often enough to conclude that they strike many people as obvious and obviously true. If we are to understand children and children’s reading better, I believe their truth needs to be challenged.
Some Common Assumptions about Children’s Books
Over the years, as I’ve spoken with university students, parents, teachers, librarians, and other adults about children’s literature, I’ve been surprised by how often they agree with each other about it. Listed here are a few ideas that we’ve heard expressed often enough to conclude that they strike many people as obvious.If we are to understand children’s literature better, I believe their truth needs to be challenged.
Perry Nodelman 