Hacker News with Generative AI: Children's Literature

An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak.
Family, Death, Art, Books, Children's Literature
7 points by prismatic 4 days ago | 1 comments
Beatrix Potter's Quiet Rebellion (neh.gov)
In a 1918 storybook, Beatrix Potter describes an encounter between a humble country mouse named Timmy Willie and his urbane counterpart, Johnny Town-Mouse.
Literature, History, Children's Literature
3 points by apollinaire 37 days ago | 0 comments
Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature (yalereview.org)
As a boy, I knew I was supposed to like cars and trucks and things that go. But as an unathletic and decidedly unboyish kid, I only got close to liking one car—my mom’s blue Volkswagen Ghia, which she used to ferry me to and from school (and, when she needed some time to herself, to her parents’—my grandparents’—house for an overnight visit).
Children's Literature, Art, Writing
297 points by cainxinth 81 days ago | 131 comments
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (literaryreview.co.uk)
Children’s literature is a Snarky beast: hunt for it and you’ll find a Boojum. Texts written for adults, like J R R Tolkien’s _The Lord of the Rings_, snuck into children’s hands; editions of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books appeared with ‘adult’ covers to spare their grown-up readers’ blushes. It’s an unstable, intertextual field, with books referring to and borrowing from each other endlessly. Critically, it’s a battleground, with some swooning at the symbolism of castles and princesses, and others finding power struggles and colonialism under every enchanted stone. Many children’s books address an adult reader above the child’s head, so who are they really aimed at? Some academics even insist that true children’s literature can only be written by children. Those academics, incidentally, are off their rockers.
Children's Literature, History, Literature
16 points by samclemens 135 days ago | 4 comments
Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture (theintrinsicperspective.com)
Children's Literature, Culture, Psychology
25 points by arbesman 136 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people (ycombinator.com)
Books, Children's Literature, Famous People
21 points by marchelloy2k 156 days ago | 38 comments
The case for not sanitising fairy tales (plough.com)
Fairy Tales, Children's Literature, Censorship, Storytelling
301 points by crapvoter 207 days ago | 360 comments
The Vulture and the Little Girl (wikipedia.org)
Stories, Literature, Children's Literature
46 points by EndXA 214 days ago | 12 comments