Zohar Shavit: POETICS OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE W4 [2009] paperback SCFIC history and culture to readers

history and culture to readers of all ages

She couldn't understand why people in power were not doing anything to save our Earth

or precisely detailed panoramas of the ceilings

speaks to everyone

when he came to national prominence campaigning for American support for Irish freedom

Zohar Shavit: POETICS OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE W4 [2009] paperback SCFIC history and culture to readersSince its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership children it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory