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Tulloch, Bonnie J. – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
This article explores how adult writers of children's literature are implicitly positioned as translators between "adult" and "child" culture. Adopting the lens of metaphor theory, it traces the conceptual correspondence between adult metaphors of childhood (e.g., the child-savage analogy) and the metaphor of the adult…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Figurative Language, Children