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Addressed to an audience assumed to be inexperienced about the world it has been born into and in need of information about it, children's literature is centrally a literature of and about discovery. As well as helping its implied young readers to discover their world as adults understand it, children's literature also leads young readers into sharing adult understandings of who they are and/or ought to be themselves as children. This essay explores the kinds of discoveries conventionally offered by texts for young people and considers both the positive and negative implications of the versions of the world and its inhabitants that such texts most often tend to establish.
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Nodelman, P. (2013). Discovery: My Name is Elizabeth. In: Wu, Y., Mallan, K., McGillis, R. (eds) (Re)imagining the World. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36760-1_4
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