Why do adults read children’s books?
From commuters absorbed by Harry Potter books to the wide appeal of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the mystery of why some grown-ups like reading children’s books may finally be solved. Adults are hacked off with the disappointment of modern life.
Dr Louise Joy, a Cambridge University academic, believes classic children’s books, and the work they inspire, attract older readers because they give them things they cannot find in their everyday lives, including direct communication, tasty home-cooked food, and tolerance towards eccentricity. The researcher claims such books represent a “symbolic retreat from the disappointment of reality”.
Dr Joy will be at the Festival of Ideas, the UK’s only arts, humanities, and social science festival, to revisit classics of children’s literature, considering what interest they hold for adult readers and probing how their enduring appeal reflects and influences how adults view childhood.
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