Once Upon a Reality
Children’s life experiences are only yet beginning, therefore they still lack emotional control and practice to deal with issues they are...
The Candyman Can
Unlike many people think - or may believe to remember - , childhood is not always a picturesque time in our lives. For some people who...
My Problem is My Problem
Many people think of childhood as an idyllic time of your life, but actually being a child is not easy and sometimes very frustrating....
A Happy Ending
Jeanette Winterson once wrote what was to her the main difference between writing for children and for adults: "Writing a kids' book was...
Reaching Wide Minds
In his book, The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim analyses fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychoanalysis and he defends that fairy...
The Little Grown Up
"I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: frightened? Why should...
Some Wiseness
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story, you never quite know where they'll take you. Beatrix Potter Unless...
Pursuit of Knowledge
When I was a child, I often thought that I could understand things better than anyone, sometimes even than adults. I didn't need detailed...
Drawing and Anthropomorphism.
For you to draw something well you have to understand what you are drawing. If you want to give it volume, depth or even texture you have...
"Clever Naïf"
The term Naïf is used to describe a few characteristics of one particular kind of art. But the most important one here and the reason why...
