Children's Rights Essay

The Observatory Role of Children The broader definition of children’s literature is inclusive of literature “written and/or…about youth”, but typically does include youth as a youthful persona who uses simplistic language which children can readily identify with or others can read into from a child’s perspective. (Schneider, 23) Most times this persona allows the child to play an observatory role in the book by giving attention to small details, leaving a level of obscurity to some observations,…

story, and features interesting characters, fun fantasy, and a good story. The plot is not predictable, you never know what is going to happen next, and there are black and white characters (which some found to be good for the young audience, just right for them to…

automatically think that all of his books are childish and have no main purpose to them, right? Well, you may have not known this, but even if every single one of Theodor Geisel’s books may be meant for kids, deeply hidden in the childish text is a meaningful message. Seuss inscripts a deep message into his books because he wants to express his feelings during a specific part of his life in the form of children’s literature. Two of his books, entitled The Lorax and The Sneetches, published on…

Illustrated children’s picture books are new way of possibly conveying to children vivid events and situations and enhance their comprehension of what is going on. Children enjoy reading picture book because whilst the adult is reading for them it has features which enables them to physically engage by including; pop-up, flap, pull-tab and textured books. Imaged and words of different kind is combined in order to form narratives for children and therefore vary enormously in both function and…

refers to Inter-Agency co-operation, and ensures that any agency that becomes aware of the mistreatment of a child should make their findings known to other agencies so that the child can be monitored. (Claridge, 2016) Children’s Trusts are local partnership arrangements to improve children’s wellbeing, and are underpinned by a ‘duty to cooperate’ in section 10 of the Children Act…

The Government sets out policy and statutory guidelines for how organisations must operate with respect to safeguarding of children and young people. Working together to Safeguard children 2015 provides the statutory guidelines and non statutory guidelines that support the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004. Other policies and guidelines include Keeping Children Safe in Education 2015 and Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education 2007. A school must produce internal…

steps to keep children safe and well; promote good health, manage behaviour and maintain records, policies and procedures.’ (EYFS 2014:11). It is extremely important to apply with legal policies such as the UNCRC, which states that children have the right to be protected from illness,…

The article I read was entitled, “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Books” written by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Children’s book reviewer, The Wall Street Journal. This author has been the children’s book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal since 2005. Her work appeared on numerous other publications such as Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and more. She worked as overseas correspondent in many different countries; Asia, Europe, Africa and in the Middle East. She graduated from Bowdoin…

Everyone has that favorite children's book that they would constantly read over and over again when they were younger. Eye catching illustrations and captivating figurative language creates a whole new world for a child. Beatrix Potter was a famous British author and illustrator who brought generations of children to love the simple tales she told through imagery as well as simplistic story telling. Not only was she a children's writer, but she was a woman who believed in conservatism and had…

parents say yes and others say no. Two sides, each with very different views and opinions on the subject. Today I will sharing both sides, it’s up to you to decide whether or not your pro fairy tales or if you’re against them. Fairy tales teach us right from wrong. When a character’s actions get them in trouble, it makes us think what they could have done to avoid that situation. They also teach us about different cultures and about how other people have different ways of doing certain…