We have gone on a gory and disgusting journey together, exploring a whole heap of different books, all of which have a single linking theme: negative and horrible food as seen by children. We tried to see how children 'read' these books and whether it negatively affects the way they think about food, the answer (most of the time) was yes! These books helped to:
- Make
children think about foods creatively
- Make
children look at 'healthy foods' in an often bad light
- Appreciate
what food they do have
- Look at
medicines in a negative way
- Acknowledge
'greed' as a bad thing
- Sometimes
delight in horrible foods for their disgusting and delightfully gory
connotations, possibly because of the horrified reactions of adults.
I learned a great deal about how children (and I!) look at foods negatively based on the way they are represented by children's fiction, and that it is a lot more complex than I originally thought. Food often plays a huge role in children's literature and can greatly affect a child's opinions, tastes and imagination regarding food.
I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog as much as I have liked writing it! Thanks all!
Works referenced
Beeton, Isabella. Edited by Nicola
Humble Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household
Management. Oxford Paperbacks Abridged Edition June 2008.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie
and The Chocolate Factory Puffin
(re- issue edition) Feb 2013
Dahl, Roald. George’s
Marvellous Medicine. Puffin (re- issue edition)
Dahl, Roald. Matilda Puffin
(re- issue edition) Feb 2013
Dahl, Roald. The BFG Puffin
(re- issue edition) Feb 2013
Dahl, Roald. The
Twits. (re- issue edition) Feb 2013
Potter, Beatrix. The
Tale of Peter Rabbit. Warne; New Ed. Edition March 2002
Rowling, J.K. Harry
Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997.
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