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Powerful at all ages

Lindsey Geybels — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:31:46 +0000

The link between age and power has been studied from various perspectives in children’s literature. While some scholars mainly focus on the adult’s power, others discuss power on the child’s part, like Clémentine Beauvais, who argues that a child’s ‘might’ lies in the future that lies ahead of them. In his broader research project, Leander… Continue reading Powerful at all ages

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What readers make of age, decline and wisdom

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:15:24 +0000

In children’s literature, young readers come into contact with fictional representations of their own age, as well as other ages. How those age representations in literature are experienced by readers – both young and old – and how readers use those interpretations to shape and make sense of their own age and the age of… Continue reading What readers make of age, decline and wisdom

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Different aspects of age in the oeuvre of David Almond

Lindsey Geybels — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:59:34 +0000

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book is co-authored by several members of the CAFYR team and builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in various aspects of children’s literature: the age of the author, the characters, the… Continue reading Different aspects of age in the oeuvre of David Almond

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Encounters of a dreamy kind

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:05:58 +0000

Dreams can function in children’s books as a means to connect young characters and older figures in the story. In this article, Vanessa Joosen presents three methods to study intergenerational encounters in and through dreams in a selection of contemporary Dutch children’s books. She does this by means of a digital analysis of a corpus… Continue reading Encounters of a dreamy kind

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Becoming wiser over time

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:16:47 +0000

In this article, Leander Duthoy discusses how child and adult readers of children’s literature use the concepts of innocence and wisdom as age norms to reflect both on their own age and the age of fictional characters. He gathered data through semi-structured interviews and focus-group discussions with readers aged nine to seventy-five. In these conversations,… Continue reading Becoming wiser over time

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Bart Moeyaert, from author to public figure

Frauke Pauwels — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:19:51 +0000

Bart Moeyaert has been writing for decennia. Ever since his debut, Duet met valse noten (which was published when he was nineteen years old), he has acquired great fame both in Belgium and internationally. In 2019, he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, perhaps the most important international prize voor children’s literature. His personalexperiences and… Continue reading Bart Moeyaert, from author to public figure

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