Earlier we asked one of Piccolo's most important questions: "Why is Child and Young Adult Literature important?" The answer was not far from the logic of imagination and moving away from adult domination. Why You Should Read Children's Books&nbsp;by Katherine Rundell does not stray far from this issue. Indeed, why do we insist on studying this genre? What is the magic of it all?Whenever this topic is discussed, it is valuable to take the intersectional feminist approach as a guide. Feminism is for Everyone, with an approach that will map to Rundell's approach. Let's take a look at the subject with this 101 approach and get into the details:<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Children's Literature is a very important field for feminist education for the development of critical consciousness because beliefs and identities are still being constructed in this process.</blockquote><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Piccolo and Katherine</h2>Writer Katherine Rundell, as with Piccolo, takes a very personal approach to the issue. It turns out that the public library in the Mount Pleasant residential area of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, hasn't had any new books since the 1950s, and it still spins around 20-odd books. That's what I call the field of passion.The editor's story: I come across the red cover book in front of the cash register of Remzi Bookstore in Turkey. I'm happy that I'm not the first person to ask this fundamental question, and I'm filled with myself to say, "I was going to write this book."&nbsp;As I skip the pages, I get scared of our passion areas and I am a little devastated with the second star from the right on the last page. You ask why? The book I've already written in my head is already in print—obviously, if we met, we would either be very close friends or hate each other.&nbsp;There is no in-between.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/8/0/1662917794348.png" width="550" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.42" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">📖 Katherine Rundell and her books<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Why you should read children's books </h2>Rundell begins by pointing to the "secondary" approach of the genre. For example, novelist, essayist, and short story writer Martin Amis, when asked if he would write a children's book, replied:&nbsp;<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">If I had suffered a severe brain injury, I could possibly write a children's book.</blockquote>I won't talk about how boring I find this person because I don't want the seriousness of the article to be taken away. Frankly, the author has already given a wonderful answer by writing these thoughts:<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Most adults think that the reading process should work in one direction, because the opposite is seen as a decline in maturity. You read Spot the Dog first, then the double-headed monster called PeterandJane, then you go through Narnia and continue with Patrick Ness... Then you triumph by moving on to adult literature, and then it stays there, you never look back because To look means to lose one's position.</blockquote>What about those who are not afraid of losing their position? So what do they gain from it?<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">But the human heart does not travel in a straight line like a train. The adventure of reading is nothing like that, at least mine wasn't like that. If we discard children's literature, we are throwing away a jewel box full of riches that, when we read it through adult eyes, we will find a different alchemy.</blockquote><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Children's Literature since 1475 </h2>The issue is deep. It is as old as it is deep. For example, it is old enough to refer to the first children's books written in English. These cultural products, which describe the rules of etiquette, started to appear around 1475. These works, which tell you where you should not play while at the table, have long continued to stay with their didactic point of view.What were we saying: Oh yes, adult domination, of course. That's what ruled the genre for a long time. For this reason, Rundell attributes the subject that fairy tales are not just for children, but that they focus on teachings and carry culture. He always touches on the basics between chapters and brings the subject to Peter Pan's journey to his hometown, where he prefers adult life to child life, but modern Children's Literature works touch on hope.Because even though they still carry cultural narratives, hope and distance from the wasteland are there today. It is our turn to understand and appreciate the depth of the field. That's why, precisely because of all these, this book makes me say we should read children's books.&nbsp;

Piccolo

“When I write, I am actually writing on behalf of two people: one is me when I am twelve, the other is me now, and the book I am writing should satisfy these two different but interconnected appetites.”

Why you should read children's books

<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">No one is alone; everything that comes to mind must have occurred to someone else, so we need to be a community where we raise each other together! This is an environment of support and it is very much real.</blockquote>The sixth guest of Radio Piccolo is Yasmin Güleç, writer, editor, journalist, and founder of 20'lik! When we found the subjectivity of the 20s, which she reflected in his newsletter, to be very much aligned with Piccolo, we did not want to skip these issues without talking to her.Today we are talking about the things from which we get inspiration while producing content. We begin from the years when we started to consume literature consciously and arrive at the journalism degree where Yasmin received her undergraduate degree. How is the experience of interviewing a child? So, what should be considered when producing content with people in their 20s? I would've said "That's why I would definitely listen to the episode we recorded with Yasmin."&nbsp;but it's in Turkish, so I'll just invite you to read more on the quotes below.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/8/0/1662918248823.png" width="550" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="0.80" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">📻 Radio Piccolo #6: Yasmin Güleç and&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/alarademirel1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Alara Demirel</a> &nbsp;🧷 Photograph: Selin Ünsel<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(229, 209, 82); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">I tried to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at a very young age. Then I had to quit midway and come back years later. Actually, the concept of age and capacity in Children's Literature—regardless of age—is very important to me.</blockquote>Yasmin takes a critical look at the age-related parts of the genre that interests us and visits a few books from her childhood as she explains what she wants to do in her 20s:🐰 Guess How Much I Love You — Sam McBratney 💘 Dear Dumb Diary — Jim Benton 🧀&nbsp;Diary of a Wimpy Kid&nbsp;— Jeff Kinney 🦊 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse&nbsp;— Charlie Mackesy 🦸‍♀️ Jacqueline Wilson's book

We talk with Yasmin, the founder of 20'lik, about the inspiration taken from the products of Children's and Young Adult Literature while producing content.

Radio Piccolo #6: Yasmin Güleç

<div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="Page 1">Once upon a time—that is, towards the end of the 17th century and with the emergence of modern Children's Literature in the 18th century—Children's Literature was associated with the category of appropriateness for a child. Wikipedia, one of the most frequently referenced sources of the 21st century, defines Children's Literature in a similar way: "Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children."Piccolo&nbsp;focuses on this approach:&nbsp;It is highly cultural to regard childhood as if it's only essential since it's a phase towards adulthood. Or, perhaps, a child is an extension of an adult. The spectrum of these perceptions is constantly changing and transforming. This magazine focuses on those who do not approach Children's and Young Adult Literature from an ageist perspective and think that the audience should not be limited to a certain age period—it is a genre.</div><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">On a personal note: Why is an editor interested in the genre of Children's and Young Adult Literature?</h2>I was only 9 years old when I first realized that I wanted to be a writer. 16, when I decided to study literature—keeping in mind the positivist culture that glorifies only becoming a lawyer or a doctor in Turkey, let me recognize my privilege: my biggest supporter was my mother. Still, I remember the reaction I got when I first opened up about my writing career to the other adults: “There's no money in that business.”At the time, J.K. Rowling, who is now wildly known for her transphobic comments, was the first person to become a millionaire with a book series. As a matter of fact, this was the only example of the creative industries and our rigid capitalist reality was summing up our society's approach to writing as an income source.&nbsp;A 17-year-old me, who was preparing for university exams, after the events that I intend to explain in a moment, then decided to study Comparative Literature. This time they asked: “Have you finished reading the classics?” Now when I look back, it's as if adulthood automatically came with a desire to dominate—their conditions were never-ending. The tyranny was shamelessly outed.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/0/1656844844438.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.79" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">🧷 Illustration: Quentin Blake<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Towards Piccolo: Why is Children's and Young Adult Literature essential?</h2>Known for her intersectional feminist approach, bell hooks explains the importance she associates with Children's and Young Adult Literature as follows:<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="Page 10">Children’s literature is one of the most crucial sites for feminist education for critical consciousness precisely because beliefs and identities are still being formed.</div></blockquote>Similarly, Filipović's Gender Representation in Children's Books: Case of an Early Childhood Setting summarizes that children's books play an important role in the process of social learning and identity development, providing some of the earliest and longest-lasting perceptions of gender, race, and class. According to Masha Rudman, books have a critical impact on the minds of their readers:<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Books are important influences on their readers’ minds. They can either help or hinder us when we attempt to construct suitable bases for attitudes and behaviors.</blockquote>Santora also helps us imagine a world without hate by introducing the theory of mirrors and windows to literature. According to this, when books act as "mirrors," they contain reflections of children, their lifestyles, families, and society. "Windows," however, provides a glimpse into the diversity of the world children lives in. Hence, individuals can develop comfort and respect towards people, places, and lifestyles they do not know about.Then perhaps, which books our paths have crossed with—especially when we were children—is much more essential.🏰 Let me just some all of it up: The recipe for a wholesome society may lie in increased representation. Especially whilst close reading Children's and Young Adult Literature.

“Books are important influences on their readers’ minds. They can either help or hinder us when we attempt to construct suitable bases for attitudes and behaviors.” —Masha Rudman

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