Children's Books Articles

Culture and Society » Books » Children's Books | By Dustin Cannon @ Friday, 15th September 2006 @ 3:55 PM

Beatrix Potter created the famed children's bunny, Peter Rabbit. She was born in Kensington London in 1866, to a Victorian era family with several servants and a large house. A shy girl who spent many hours of every day alone, she learned art, music, reading and writing from her governess. A full time nurse was her other usual companion. Other than summers, her brother Bernard, six years younger than she, spent his time away at school. During the summer Beatrix Potter and brother Ber... more...

Culture and Society » Books » Children's Books | By Susan Atkinson @ Thursday, 7th September 2006 @ 12:01 AM

There has always been a lucrative market for books for children. Parents will know that the bedtime story is an opportunity for parent and child to bond. For some reason, human beings need stories and children particularly need that parallel world. Fairy stories, as well as being entertaining, also served to teach good moral values in the child. Then, books for children tended to split into stories for boys and stories for girls. This demarcation line is more blurred today. Boys have alwa... more...

Culture and Society » Books » Children's Books | By Duane Shinn @ Friday, 27th January 2006 @ 8:15 PM

In the popular movie “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, author C.S. Lewis created the imaginary land of Narnia, where 4 children encounter time travel and discover the forces of both good and evil, and take a much greater part in that battle than they had ever dreamed possible. Set during World War 2, four siblings Lucy, Peter, Susan and Edmund are moved to the county because of the bombing in London, and begin to explore the big house that is their temporary new home. In a back roo... more...