Nothe wise man The secret door (Terre di mezzo Publisher), Mac Barnett explains so that a book for young people can also be valuable for adults. Children’s books work on emotional mechanisms and help us look at the world with four eyes: ours and those of the child within us. They help us learn from children and young people, reshaping our ability to see the world. It is certain that one of the most powerful means that exist to change one’s perspective on things and broaden one’s gaze towards others are good stories.
Literature for children and teenagers makes available stories that create fertile ground and connection between the two worlds: adult and childish. As adults, we forget many things that children know, not only about what it’s like to be a child, but also about the world we all share. A book for children, therefore, can teach us to see their (and our) world better and to scratch those walls of incommunicability a little. that are often created between parents and children, not allowing us to recognize the discomfort and difficulties they hide.
At the same time, reading a good story also helps us recognize the fragility of us adultsbecause children’s literature works on emotional mechanisms, not intellectual and cultural ones like adult literature does. Therefore it allows us to practice emotionally, helping us to recognize others and not center the world on ourselves. In practice, children’s literature is a panacea for personal relationships at all ages.
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