Children's Literature

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This paper looks at the significant role that children's literature plays in transmitting society's cultural aspects to children. The paper explains that gender roles are a particularly important part of this cultural development, thereby making the portrayal of genders within children's literature a strong influence on the image children develop of their own role and that of their gender in society.

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"In the field of Children's Literature there are many, many issues that impact upon this literature such as censorship, the uses of series books, the role of technologies and many others. However, there can be no more important issue, particularly in the early elementary learning period of children than the issues presented by the roles of gender."

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