Style, September 22nd, 2001
The popular and influential children's author E. Nesbit sends up the conventions of children's literature and invites her young readers to do the same. Keenly aware of the power that adults and their narratives wield over children, Nesbit coaxes young people to recognize the artificiality of the image of childhood presented to them by texts, and to accept, reject, or revise this picture as they see fit. The manufacturing of childhood can be a mutual process, she suggests, if children operate as selective, resistant readers and creative writers in their own right. More specifically, Nesbit repe...
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