Lewis Carroll: An Easter Greeting
AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES ‘ALICE’ [1] DEAR CHILD, Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real…
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Toward An Ethics of Children’s Fiction
As parents, we all know we should be reading aloud to our children. There are countless anthologies of children’s literature that tell us what…
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E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
Seamus Heaney’s “The Railway Children” from his 1984 collection Station Island, offers an almost ekphrastic response to E. Nesbit’s classic British children’s story, The…
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Word and Flesh
Story is foundational to the Christian faith, and it is told through both words and illustration. When approaching children’s literature as a parent, the…
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Jonah’s Scrapbook Journal: a journey of theological and artistic exploration
I have always been excited by children’s literature and even now, at the age of 33, my good reads account is full of authors…
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Incarnational Analogies: The Soteriology of The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s story The Runaway Bunny1 (illustrated by Clement Hurd) has garnered scant scholarly attention since its publication in 1942, although…
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From Six to Sixty: Introduction to Children’s Literature Symposium
J.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote in his “On Fairy Stories” I will now turn to children, and so come to the last and most important…
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