... because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). Because of this lack of acknowledgment by the literary establishment, the critic P. Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. It ... Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. Peter Pan focuses p...

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