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October 2015  \n Australian International Academic Centre, Australia  \nLiterature Society and Culture in Education Childhood Literature History  \nEmilia Conforti  \nLISE Department, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy E-mail: [emilia.conforti@unical.it](emilia.conforti@unical.it)  \nDoi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.5p.73  \nURL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.5p.73](http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.5p.73)  \nReceived: 15/05/2015  \nAccepted: 20/07/2015  \nAbstract  \nThis essay takes issue with earlier critical work arguing early British children's literature functions to construct middle class subjectivites. Using the John Newbery Medal as a case study, this essay examines the prizing of children's literature and its cultural discontents. The author uses a third-person limited omniscient point of view to demonstrate the necessity of perspective and sympathy for moral growth. Children’s rights have become a significant field of study during the past decades.  \nKeywords: literary concepts, understanding childhood, childhood endorsement, according literature, childhood contribution  \n1. Introduction  \n1.1 The early intervention of the concept of children  \nChildren’s literature is very important for the child’s training.  \nThe world around him often appears as difficult to understand and upsetting. He needs help to understand what happens in his mind and outside. The parents represent, of course, the most element in this context. In the second place there is our cultural heritage, that has to be transmitted to the child in the right way.  \nWhen the child is little, the fairy tale is the literary form with he comes in contact. Fairy tale is a literary form known allover the world, in every society and country. Therefore the fairy tale is universal, but not only because it is universally present, but also because it enters in contact with whoever.  \nFairy tale express natural situations, that are lived by everybody in different moments and different countries.  \nBruno Bettleheim wrote in “The uses of Enchantment: The meaning and Importance of fairy Tales”(1976) what means about the fairy tale, he thinks it forms children personality.  \n1.2 childhood image in English literature  \nIn western culture the emphasis on the child is a relatively recent invention, and literature for children, therefore, even more recent.  \nMoral instruction is the principal characteristic of children’ literature before and after the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Puritans do not hide the virtuous aims of children’ literature: spiritual salvation and the conversion of the young sinner, because as Helvetius argues “Man is, nothing more than the product of his education”.  \nFor entertainment children have romances, travel book and any “adult” reading they could read, for example Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) or Swift ’s Gulliver Travel. By the late eighteen century, before their decline, these stories had, in their chap-book form, reached their bare bones: they had been pared down to their essential, irreducible, active elements, their frequently exotic heroes and mostly been shaken down into a state of homely naturalization; reduced to a sheer primal kind of narrative, the narrations pass at once in actions, and allow their events to speak wondrously for themselves1. These narrative conventions are, of course, ideally situated to unsophisticated listener and readers, young and old alike; and their reaction, must have played some part in the evolution of the narrative manner. But there were deeper reason for their popularity, especially among powerless, subordinate audience, for many of the tales express fantasies of power and wealth, achieved either through the operation of fortune, through magic, or through feats of courage, cunning, strength or endurance. The small hero, usually of modest birth, defeats the larger, richer, more politically and socially powerful foe; the odds ar","cbCaiolnrVhy9mkL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiolnrVhy9mkL","pdf",133478,"English","# Introduction\n## The early intervention of the concept of children\n## childhood image in English literature\n# Step by step towards a real children’ literature","[{\"question\":\"What central issue does the essay address about early British children’s literature?\",\"answer\":\"It challenges earlier critical work claiming that early British children’s literature constructed middle-class subjectivities, arguing instead for a different understanding of its cultural and moral functions.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author use the John Newbery Medal in the analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The essay uses the John Newbery Medal as a case study to examine how children’s literature is awarded and what cultural discontents accompany that process.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay connect perspective and sympathy to moral growth?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that a third-person limited omniscient point of view can show why perspective and sympathy are necessary for moral development in children’s reading.\"}]","Advances in Language and Literary Studies - Vol. 6 No. 5 - October 2015 | PDF"]