Reflections on a Professional Journal Article on Children's Literature

Introduction

Lynn Kositsky's 'The Thought of High Windows' is from Children's Literature Association. It is factual journal article of the Chateau de la Hille, a French palace where a century Jewish children refuged after the Kristallnacht in late 1938. The story's protagonist, Esther, has knowledge widespread to numerous adolescent approaching of age narratives: persona, family and first love. (Lynn, pp. 11-18)

 

The Gymnasium Window: Other Children

A recurring theme in the journal is that of personal wars--from the cruelty of young children at school to the laboring district businesses. After glimpsing aggression and anti-Semitism in the ...