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Children's Picturebooks, Epiphanies, and the 1914 Christmas Truce
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 60, Number 4, 2022
- pp. 48-57
- 10.1353/bkb.2022.0059
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Given the widespread expectation that children's war literature should be morally instructive, it is not surprising that epiphanies are a regular plot device used in children's picturebooks. This article will analyze four children's picturebooks about the 1914 Christmas Truce that are framed by epiphanic experiences: Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Hendrix; 2014), And the Soldiers Sang (Lewis; 2011), The Christmas Truce (Duffy; 2014), and The Christmas Truce: The Place Where Peace Was Found (Robinson; 2014).
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