Sabina Holtby - Children's Literature

For my research paper I read an article about children’s literature. The article was very interesting. It talked about how adults write children’s literature and use it to push their children in the direction that they wish they had pursued. They put their values into the pure world of children’s literature and hope that those ideas will be instilled in the children and they will be able to accomplish the harmony that they could not.
I read a book called Mandy this year and it was about a little girl who lives in an orphanage and one day she climbs over a wall that boarders the orphanage’s property. When she leaves her world she is in the forest and she stumbles on an old house, at first she is afraid but soon she enters the house and finds that there is an entire room in the house that is made of mother of pearl, the author, Julie Edwards, describes this place in great detail with an affection for the place that makes it evident that she had often dreamt of finding such an escape. This house represents for Mandy an escape from the old stone building that she shares with thirty other children. She takes great care in making the place her own and she makes it more and more beautiful every time she visits. This is an excellent piece of children’s literature and it uses the concept of another world very well.