Perspectives on Children’s Literature

TASK

Choose an issue or theme that has interested you whilst studying the module. Analyse the presentation of the theme/issue in not more than three children’s books, one of which may be a picture book. The books should have been published after 1950.

This task enables you to exercise choice over your topic/focus and enables you to engage in an in-depth exploration of the subject-area. It requires you to apply concepts and ideas to specific chosen texts, reviewing them accordingly.

Do use the literature framework theories as a reference and as part of the essay as well.

Book selected: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne