Hello and welcome to my blog! Throughout the next month I will be posting about classic novels that would externally be seen as children's novels and look at them in further depth with a more mature apperception. The novels I will be studying are Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. My essential goal for this novel study is to delve deeper into why these may be classic children's novels as well as how they may pertain thematically or stylistically to more mature concepts and universal exploration.

I strategically chose these specific novels because of their ability to transfer you to a world created by the imagination, a quality I see in children's books far more than mature literature. I am interested in the importance of the creation and invention of the mind. To achieve this, I plan on completing a critical analysis of various aspects of the novels allowing me to achieve a fuller understanding of the underlying concepts of literature for children, and how they may not be so childish after all.