Tuesday, May 05, 2009

News at Eleven: The degree helped him [Michael Rosen] to see

how and why Kids' Lit should be subjected to critical rigour as much as grown-up writing. "Children's literature occupies a very different position from literature as a whole, largely because of two things: it's part of nurturing, in the anthropological sense, but it's also part of education. You can't say that of any other kind of literature," he says.

Rosen was oddly placed.

from Independent: Chapter and verse: Michael Rosen on why it pays to study children's literature

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