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Storytelling Tips from Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
Northern Lights is a young adult story with broad appeal for adults. The plot follows mythic structure.
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The Ideology Of Work Ethic In Children’s Literature
Good children work hard. Lazy children lose out. Working hard has an apotropaic effect on your fate. (So long as you keep working, bad things won’t happen to you.) Tyler Durden was wrong, you are your job. Career Advice This view of work ethic is so ingrained throughout children’s stories that it’s hardly noticed. However, there is speculation these […]
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Religion In Children’s Literature
Religion is still everywhere. So, reflecting and influencing the culture in which we find them, children’s books are not secular either. It’s interesting to interrogate the role of religion in children’s literature because children’s literature is an acculturating medium: It will introduce children to social life and history so is both educational and enjoyable. Many […]
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What can flight symbolise in literature?
Flight is amazingly common in children’s stories. Several other motifs should be considered symbolically similar: FLOATING AS FLIGHT SYMBOLISM Characters might hold onto helium balloons, levitate by magic or by supernatural means. A picture book example of floating can be seen in “Outside Over There” by Maurice Sendak, in which Ida floats backwards out the […]
