Cop practical ideas
monsters, metaphor, being shown for what they are
Realism, ambiguity
Sad stories
Stories to help deal with grief
Anthropomorphic animals still seen as animals
Open endings/ open to interpretation
Thought provoking
Narratives children can relate to/ ideas they can explore through play and conversation
Ideas
monsters, metaphor, being shown for what they are
Realism, ambiguity
Sad stories
Stories to help deal with grief
Anthropomorphic animals still seen as animals
Open endings/ open to interpretation
Thought provoking
Narratives children can relate to/ ideas they can explore through play and conversation
Ideas
Animals refusing to be made anthropomorphised, acting like animals when given human traits or clothing.
Trying to do act with the best intentions and being bad by accident.
Finding positives in bad situations.
Using humans as animal characters from classic children’s fiction
Children trying to intersect with real animals like anthropomorphised animals from fiction ( funny failed encounters)
Real life problems depicted in an educational and appropriate way in response to my research both last year and so far this year
Stories with no ending, even just a starting point to spark imagination then blank pages/ missing pages throughout the book,connect the dots.
Trying to do act with the best intentions and being bad by accident.
Finding positives in bad situations.
Using humans as animal characters from classic children’s fiction
Children trying to intersect with real animals like anthropomorphised animals from fiction ( funny failed encounters)
Real life problems depicted in an educational and appropriate way in response to my research both last year and so far this year
Stories with no ending, even just a starting point to spark imagination then blank pages/ missing pages throughout the book,connect the dots.
Interactions between flawed characters ( discovering their flaws, helping each other overcome them etc).
Depict real situations, not 'perfect' ones. Not judging the situation either way but leaving it open to interpretation.
* Update
I started out planning to write a book about animals refusing to be anthropomorphised, being dressed as human but acting like their true animal nature. This narrative was aimed to represent the way children's fiction attempts to use animals to teach moral lessens even through research suggests children do not learn moral lessons from them. Essentially in these books we are trying to force the animal characters to be something they are not and to do something they cannot achieve. I planned to depict animals in human situations but refusing to live up to their anthropomorphised nature, the narrative would have included humour but also realism and consequences. I ended up removing the study about animals in children's fiction as it was too specifically based on the animals ability to aid moral development and not the question of whether children's fiction itself was capable of achieving this. When included in the essay it looked as if I had made the assumption that fiction could and moved on from my essay question. At this point I had to find a new way to explore the theories and research through practical work.
* Update
I started out planning to write a book about animals refusing to be anthropomorphised, being dressed as human but acting like their true animal nature. This narrative was aimed to represent the way children's fiction attempts to use animals to teach moral lessens even through research suggests children do not learn moral lessons from them. Essentially in these books we are trying to force the animal characters to be something they are not and to do something they cannot achieve. I planned to depict animals in human situations but refusing to live up to their anthropomorphised nature, the narrative would have included humour but also realism and consequences. I ended up removing the study about animals in children's fiction as it was too specifically based on the animals ability to aid moral development and not the question of whether children's fiction itself was capable of achieving this. When included in the essay it looked as if I had made the assumption that fiction could and moved on from my essay question. At this point I had to find a new way to explore the theories and research through practical work.
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