Rupture in Children’s Literature: The sad book and Smok

Abstract

This reflex article responds to the necessity of update the assessment that still exists around children’s literature. From the children’s books El libro triste (2004) and Humo (2008) and from some postulates about death in school education, mainly from Mar Cortina and Agustín de la Herrán, it will look at the reflection that Marisa Bortolussi makes (1987), in her text Análisis teórico del cuento infantil, about children’s literature, in contrast to the adult one, and the taboo, in which we highlight death, subjects that have shaped it since its existence. In such a way that a break about the vision of children’s literature is proposed from a position that limits the thematics of their texts, from the consideration that recognizes a series of limitations in the capacity of reception of information by the infant of literary texts.
Methodology. This article is built from the methodology of documentary or bibliographic research that seeks to relate technological advances and access to information with the necessary changes in the topics that are given in formal education from an updated conception of the plot interests in which children’s literature develops.