David Almond Archieven - CAFYR

How old is young?

Lindsey Geybels — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:10:19 +0000

Can or should authors only write books for children if they themselves are still young or childlike enough? And when is ‘old’ still considered ‘young enough’? In the book Hoe oud is jong? (How old is young?), Vanessa Joosen advocates for greater awareness of the concept of age as a social construct. She provides insight into important… Continue reading How old is young?

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Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

Lindsey Geybels — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:52:04 +0000

Children’s literature is often marked by an imbalance in age, as adult authors write for young readers. For this article, Vanessa Joosen interviewed seven children’s and young adult authors – Aidan Chambers, Guus Kuijer, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine, David Almond, Joke Van Leeuwen, and Bart Moeyaert – to investigate how they negotiate and reflect on… Continue reading Adult authors, young readers, and shared experiences.

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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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Shaping the self in the metanarrative

Frauke Pauwels — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:24:03 +0000

David Almond’s The Savage (2008), illustrated by Dave McKean, demonstrates how narrating enables the adolescent protagonist, Blue Baker, to explore themes of loss, grief and bullying in the embedded graphic narrative he creates about a savage boy, a story Blue calls ‘The Savage’. The metanarrative utterances in The Savage not only reveal Blue’s reflections regarding… Continue reading Shaping the self in the metanarrative

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Adult authors and child characters experiencing memory

Frauke Pauwels — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:52:53 +0000

This essay demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a lens based on 4E-inspired cognitive narratology to David Almond’s My Name is Mina (2010) in order to illuminate how the so-called cognitive-affective imbalance between children and adults needs reassessing, especially when it comes to memory. Merging recent developments in 4E – or embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive… Continue reading Adult authors and child characters experiencing memory

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