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Heroes and Heroines in Children’s Fiction: Why the Characters We Meet at Ten Stay With Us Forever by Writers Exchange E-Publishing
What makes a hero in a children's book? The question sounds simple, but the best authors have always known that the answer is more complicated than a sword, a quest, or a tidy moral lesson at the end. The heroes and heroines who endure in children's fiction are not the ones who win because they are strongest or cleverest or bravest in the conventional sense. They are the ones who are recognisably, stubbornly, vulnerably human, and who discover something true…