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January 10, 2005

Libraries and children literature

Platero, the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes children and youthful literature portal, has included among its documents the Ana Garralón’s article La imagen social de la biblioteca en España. Libros infantiles y juveniles (The social image of the library in Spain. Children and youthful books) that completes the important contributions that this author had already made about infantil literature in Spain and Latin-America and that can be consulted in the catalogue of Platero portal of this excellent digital library. Ana Garralón is an expert in children literature and this is showed by her work in specialized magazines. In this article she asks Is the library a place attractive enough for a writter to use it in a story? In this extense document she analyzes how library and librarians are seen in tales and different children works. The reflexions are accompanied by a big bibliography, in which all the texts commented in the article are found.

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