What and How task

I will research into how conflict is shown in children's fiction and what affect it has. I became interested in this after reading Tove Jansson's official biography (Life, Art, Words), and I realised that I was much more interested in how reality bleeds through into children's books and how big, difficult, concepts are presented to children. As no matter how much we pretend to be children too, we are still grown ups with grown up concepts that are a little forgien to kids. It will hopefully contribute to my practice by teaching me something about writing children's books and furthering my knowledge of how to create fantasy worlds.

I'm going to read a wide range of children's books, academic books and journals. I'm going to use qualitative methods to interpret the text and use data to infer and compare the use of imagery and symbolism to reference conflict to a children's demographic. my hypothesis for this will be that more contemporary children's fiction uses less symbolism and imagery than previous incarnations that would somewhat protect the innocence of youth as we now have a more fragmented society. I'll accomplish my goal of writing this dissertation by dedicating at least one day a week to cop3 and continuing to read  informative texts. My practical will be something I'll need help or advice on as currently I only have the idea of creating a series of children's book characters.