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Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 17] 2023
► pp. 170–188

Chapter 7
From the “Children of all Lands Stories” to the “Enfants du monde” collection

Providing a view of the Other in children’s literature

Although it does not appear under this name on the shelves of bookshops or libraries, the literary genre of the phototextual country portrait has an effective reality in children’s literature, with a wide variety of publications. These works are regularly published in periods when children’s books are seen as the engine of a new pacifist humanism. They flourished in different parts of the world after the two world wars, all carrying the same message of hope, transmitting the conviction that the world, in its diversity and complexity, is one: our world. This article juxtaposes the works of the 1920s series “Children of all Lands Stories”, by the American photographer and filmmaker Madeline Brandeis, with those of the “Enfants du monde” collection, carried by photographs by French photographer Dominique Darbois, to discuss how photographs and texts are combined to offer the young reader new views of the Other and thus promote peace between peoples through children’s literature.

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • The international context: In search of peace
  • Didactic and collective memory objectives
  • Geographic and historic spaces
  • Collections by world travelers
  • Forming a pact with the child reader
  • Titles and narrative forms
  • On the relationship between text and image
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 September 2023
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