Children Literature: An Important Role In Childhood Education

Introduction:

Children literature plays an important role in childhood education. Nowadays, many parents attach great importance to education. They tell children stories not only to entertain but also to teach important life and moral lessons (Lee, Ganea, & Larsen, 2017). According to prior researchers, “Books can have a more powerful impact on a child than is sometimes imagined, and that impact can last a lifetime. Those lessons learned earliest are the most difficult to alter.” (Burke et al., 2004).

Meanwhile, most of children’s literature were created by relating to anthropomorphic animals. Anthropomorphic animal involves assigning a human trait to an animal or object (Lee, Ganea, & Larsen, 2017). These stories’ plots are fantastic as well as the description is always interesting. “By using this kind of characters, a story becomes more captivating and its lessons more accessible to the young mind.” (Melson, 2001). It is necessary for us to summarize the influences of anthropomorphic animals in children’s book, which may become a guide for parents

As for children’s recognition to real animals and nature, children might set up a human centered concept of nature (Waxman et al., 2014) as well as anthropomorphic animals might lead children to think of animals can do something like human, thereby interfering with generalization to real animals (Ganea et al., 2011). In addition, children’s book as an important factor for children to understand the world information. Thus, it should impart knowledge in a scientific way, otherwise children will hardly be able to switch between the virtual world and the real world (Particia et al., 2014). What’ more, children are sensitive. If books are anthropomorphic languages, content information will make children confuse. In order words, children's learning will be disturbed by the unrealistic and vague knowledge (Particia et al.,