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How children’s books can help parents
understand their children

Meni Kanatsouli
Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
menoula@nured.auth.gr
“The phenomenon of readers who defy
boundaries is common for books which,
while ostensibly addressing children, have
attracted adults whose nostalgic memories
of childhood classics are blended with an
increased awareness of their hidden
depths” (P. Pinsent. Books and
Boundaries: Writers and their Audiences.
2004).
It should be remembered that categorizing
readers based on the age factor is a very
recent practice which mainly serves
commercial necessities. For years and
years folk tales were narrated in public to
the entire local community regardless of
age differences. Both young and old
listened to these tales together.
The infant comes into the world and is
almost always greeted by an
institutional hierarchy that immediately
represents to the infant the nature of
the lived relationship as an event of
power and control […] Children’s
literature is a part of a montage of adult
cultural practices that, along with child
rearing pedagogies, speaks to the
cultural context that gives to adult
authors and children’s texts and so to a
reproduction of unconscious relational
practices bent on exercising and
justifying adult power over the child
Would he drag him by his feet?
Pull out his hair?
Or would he do something so terrible
that he could hardly imagine it?
Oscar didn’t dare scream out of fear
that his voice would not come out.
• He was yellow with black,
narrow eyes and a huge
towel […] he would n´t go
anywhere without his
towel. Even when he went
to the bathroom, he would
take his towel with him
even though it was
troublesome. See, if it
went to school surely they
would put it in a higher
grade than Sou.
These “transitional objects” as they are
called act as a symbolic connection to the
need for a maternal presence.
They have the magical power to offer love
and in so doing may bridge the void that is
created by the temporary or permanent
absence of a mother. The mother as an
external object becomes one and the
same as the internal mother presence in
the child. The object acts as a buffer to the
child’s loneliness. It is a constant reminder
to the child that he/she is not alone.
• I have a marvelous idea! It just
came to me. The word house
(which you say is the most
boring place in the world)
begins with an H just like Hios,
Halki and Hawaii. So, what
about transforming your house
into an island? Think of it!
And if you want I can give you
some terrific ideas
- My voice is magic! They give me anything I
want just so I won’t bother them and to just
make me stop shrieking and scaring them.
When it’s cold outside and I first ask
gently and politely my mother for ice
cream:
- Mom, I want an ice-cream cone.
Mom tries in her own way and says: -You’ll
get sick. Think about for a minute.
- But I want ice-cream, I go on to say.
Mom again insists and says no.
- I want ice-cream, I insist.
Mom still says no. Then I open up my big
mouth and start screaming.
- I said I WANT ICE-CREAM!
And Mom gives it to me.
“The simplicity of texts of
children’s literature is only half
the truth about them. They also
possess a shadow, an
unconscious –a more complex
and more complete
understanding of the world and
people that remains unspoken
beyond the simple surface but
provides that simple surface with
its comprehensibility. The simple
surface sublimates –hides, but
still manages to imply the
presence of –something less
simple” (Nodelman, 2008: 206).
Thank you for your attention

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How children's book can help parents understand their children

  • 1. How children’s books can help parents understand their children Meni Kanatsouli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece menoula@nured.auth.gr
  • 2. “The phenomenon of readers who defy boundaries is common for books which, while ostensibly addressing children, have attracted adults whose nostalgic memories of childhood classics are blended with an increased awareness of their hidden depths” (P. Pinsent. Books and Boundaries: Writers and their Audiences. 2004).
  • 3. It should be remembered that categorizing readers based on the age factor is a very recent practice which mainly serves commercial necessities. For years and years folk tales were narrated in public to the entire local community regardless of age differences. Both young and old listened to these tales together.
  • 4. The infant comes into the world and is almost always greeted by an institutional hierarchy that immediately represents to the infant the nature of the lived relationship as an event of power and control […] Children’s literature is a part of a montage of adult cultural practices that, along with child rearing pedagogies, speaks to the cultural context that gives to adult authors and children’s texts and so to a reproduction of unconscious relational practices bent on exercising and justifying adult power over the child
  • 5. Would he drag him by his feet? Pull out his hair? Or would he do something so terrible that he could hardly imagine it? Oscar didn’t dare scream out of fear that his voice would not come out.
  • 6. • He was yellow with black, narrow eyes and a huge towel […] he would n´t go anywhere without his towel. Even when he went to the bathroom, he would take his towel with him even though it was troublesome. See, if it went to school surely they would put it in a higher grade than Sou.
  • 7. These “transitional objects” as they are called act as a symbolic connection to the need for a maternal presence. They have the magical power to offer love and in so doing may bridge the void that is created by the temporary or permanent absence of a mother. The mother as an external object becomes one and the same as the internal mother presence in the child. The object acts as a buffer to the child’s loneliness. It is a constant reminder to the child that he/she is not alone.
  • 8.
  • 9. • I have a marvelous idea! It just came to me. The word house (which you say is the most boring place in the world) begins with an H just like Hios, Halki and Hawaii. So, what about transforming your house into an island? Think of it! And if you want I can give you some terrific ideas
  • 10. - My voice is magic! They give me anything I want just so I won’t bother them and to just make me stop shrieking and scaring them. When it’s cold outside and I first ask gently and politely my mother for ice cream: - Mom, I want an ice-cream cone. Mom tries in her own way and says: -You’ll get sick. Think about for a minute. - But I want ice-cream, I go on to say. Mom again insists and says no. - I want ice-cream, I insist. Mom still says no. Then I open up my big mouth and start screaming. - I said I WANT ICE-CREAM! And Mom gives it to me.
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  • 18. “The simplicity of texts of children’s literature is only half the truth about them. They also possess a shadow, an unconscious –a more complex and more complete understanding of the world and people that remains unspoken beyond the simple surface but provides that simple surface with its comprehensibility. The simple surface sublimates –hides, but still manages to imply the presence of –something less simple” (Nodelman, 2008: 206).
  • 19. Thank you for your attention