Contemporary children's literature: education or entertainment? Children’s classics. Children’s need for Tom Sawyer and Cheburashka today

A book is “not a treat [for children], but their daily bread, very nutritious bread, and nobody has the right to deprive them of this essential food,” wrote Korney Chukovsky in 1933. The situation today. The mission of children’s literature of today has not changed – it is to help kids tell right from wrong, meanness from heroic deeds, and wisdom from folly. Modern children’s writers who manage to combine the best traditions of the past with new approaches.

Participants:

Moderator

• Mikhail Vizel, writer, translator, critic, editor-in-chief of the Year of Literature portal (Russia)

Speakers

• Anastasia Orlova, children's poet, writer, translator, publisher
• Sofya Remez, children's writer (Russia)
• Daniela Pareschi, children's writer, illustrator (Italy)
• Ali Asgari, publisher (Iran)
• Shiva Azimiramezani , publisher (Iran)