The document discusses 'Harry Potter' as a significant work in children's literature, highlighting its themes of adventure, bravery, and moral lessons. It emphasizes the transformation of a poor, parentless boy into a wizard in a magical world, fostering sympathy and education among children. Additionally, it addresses the genre's portrayal of good versus evil and the controversy surrounding the series for its elements of witchcraft.

1. Name : Alpa Ponda
Class : M.A Sem. 4
Roll no : 2
Paper no. 13 : New Literature
Topic : Harry Potter as children’s literature
Batch : 2016-18
Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi
Department of English,
M. K. Bhavnagar University.

2. WHAT IS CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
• the body of written works and
accompanying illustrations produced
in order to entertain or instruct young
people. The genre encompasses a
wide range of works, including
acknowledged classics of world
literature, picture books and easy-to-
read stories written exclusively for
Children
• Stories that motivates kids, teaches
moral with entertainment

3. HARRY POTTER AS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
• Harry’s life is shown as being a parentless, 11 years old boy
living an awful life with his Aunt and Uncle who treat him bad
• When he comes to know about him being Wizard his life gets
change
• this a traditional children literature background, a poor child with
whom we feel sympathized
• And the adventure starts which children enjoy
• We learn bravery, friendship, being honest helps etc. moral from
it
• So it becomes a moral story

4. • As we see in movies and
cartoons the figure of hero is
played by an “ideal” person
named as HERO but here the
wizard and witches are main.
• Here the world of wizard is like
discarded by human world in
real but in fantasy it becomes
the example in creating the
image that of ideal.
EDUCATING THE MIND

5. FANTASY LITERATURE
• The setting is friendly to children’s literature
• Forbidden forest : a forbidden forest in school.
• includes many magical features, giant spiders,
unicorn, and trolls.
• Hogwarts: utopia for children, new
establishment of different type of curricular
which is related to magic, the wizard world.

6. GOOD VS EVIL
• Good always wins over bad
• This thing repeats here
• A story of Revenge as well as
Good and truth always wins no
matter how much bad is powerful
• Same shown in tales of
Panchtantra

7. FROM CHILDREN LITERATURE TO GROWN UP’S
LITERATURE

8. THE DREAMED THINGS
• Use of magical things
• Flying broomsticks.
magic, potion, spells,
invisible clocks
• The creatures
• Spiders, unicorn,
giant, snake, house
fairy

9. STRUGGLE
• Banned by religious people, by saying that
this book promotes the idea of witchcraft.
• Then the hanging of point of view: as it
discusses about the power of self sacrifices.