Zipes Reading

I think that Zipes has some very valid statements and claims about literature and children. Zipes explains that the main audience of children's literature happens to be adults, students, librarians, and professors who happen to be studying Children's Literature. This has led to the large audience of people who are taking children's literature more sertious than ever before. My question is why were the younger generation of children never exposed to children's literature. Zipes goes on to make some pretty bold statements. Zipes states, "There never has been a literature conceived by children for children, a literature that belongs to children, and there never will be (p.40, Zipes)." I beleieve that it is very big of the author to claim that there never will be literature that belongs to children.

Class Blog

This one of the class blogs for ENGL 342, Spring 07.