Jan 8, 2018
As Hourihan (1997) put it, “All teachers know the power of stories as educational tools” and “for children who have not yet achieved the ability to reason abstractly they provide images to think with”. This notion ultimately defines the picturebook as a tool that teaches children to rebel; to question the ‘norm’ and to break out of it with their very own ideas and concepts of the world.
Hourihan (1997) also states that in order for the Western society to become less destructive of nature, we need to tell different stories, especially to children, but also to understand the hero story and its appeal.
Hourihan, M. (1997). Deconstructing the Hero, Literary Theory and Children’s Literature. London and New York: Routledge.