Write An Essay About Reading Children's Literature

Even though I'm now at the ripe old age of seventeen, I still get lots of opportunities to read children's books – I often go to volunteer work at my old elementary school's English Library and read stories to little kids. There's something sweet about those children slowly being absorbed to a particularly exciting plot and bouncing up and down with joy when something happy happens. One day, this one little girl, barely 10, approached me with the most pensive expression across her face. I asked if she wanted to discuss something. She looked at me straight in the eye, and said solemnly, "How can the princess not cry even once after such sad things?" and at that moment I realized there was something very, very wrong.
In childhood, the only way children can learn and come to contact with the world is through their parents, books, and screen. Through those, they obtain their own little wisdom and the way to solve their everyday problems. They learn to make friends, get along with other children, and find things they

Then comes the major mistake we make when it comes to children: Despite their world being viewed as a safe haven by adults, there is no such thing as a childhood without conflicts. Their parents may have a huge fight over financial issues. They may witness violence. Their best friend may be bullied, and they may even experience a close one's death. Rarely do those media realize that dark themes such as domestic violence, bullying, and divorce are connected straight to the very life of every single child in this world - yet we close their eyes, cover their ears, and desperately try to ‘protect' their souls from such