出版社：Australian Institutes for Educational Research
摘要：Children’s literature in the Arabic language has seen an impressive boom in the lastdecade both in quantity and quality. Arabic children’s literature awards have alsoincreased in number and competitiveness. However, children’s literature in the Arabiclanguage continues to be criticised for not being appealing to children, due to its didacticcontent and its highly symbolic language. This study analysed 47 award-winning Arabicchildren’s literature books, looking at five domains. The purpose was to look for featuresand trends common to award-winning books. Results revealed that Arabic children’sliterature continues to be seen as a tool to educate and impart morality. Results alsorevealed the dominance of male characters, the prevalence of realistic fiction genres, andthe repeated use of poverty, child displacement, family and refugees as the topics ofchoice when writing for children.
