Topic > Talking Animals in Children's Literature - 2117

Children's literature is becoming increasingly important in today's society. “Talking animals,” once taboo characters in literature, are now widely accepted as a means of teaching and entertaining young children. Interestingly, these anthropomorphic characters connect with children and become more loved than human or child characters. Now with our new technology films about talking animals are also being made. Our article will try to answer questions related to this topic, such as why a writer writes stories about talking animals for children, when the idea for such writing arose, why these stories are popular among children, whether they have some educational value, and how they influence culture today. We decided to use the most popular and representative work as an example to explore our questions regarding the popularity and importance of talking animal stories, and therefore we chose Winnie-the-Pooh to sufficiently express that talking animal stories they have great importance for the modern world. world and are useful to children in their rites of passage to the adult world, a world that is reflected in these beloved works. Children's literature is a relatively new genre of literature in comparison, which develops with the ideas of childhood and its psychological stages. “It was only around the 18th century that children's literature as we know it emerged, books written and published specifically for children's entertainment and edification.” (Russell 8) Talking animals in children's literature are a motif that has only begun to appear in the last two centuries due to religious attempts to prevent children from hearing stories that broke the laws of nature, or of God.” ...most writers of the time recount... half-paper... days of childhood. This is how important an anthropomorphic children's book can be. Talking animals in children's literature may have grown up quickly. But it's not a passing fad. The reasons for the popularity and importance of talking animal stories can be easily summarized. Winnie-the-Pooh marks the beginning of these embraced talking animal stories for children, we can only wish that works written subsequently were half as valuable as they became. But we know that it is through these instantly appealing works that children learn about the ways of adults and the valuable moral lessons they will need throughout their lives. Winnie-the-Pooh managed to do just that, and from a brief study of Winnie-the-Pooh we understand that talking animals may have great importance for children today and for adults looking back on their childhoods..